A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §588 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XVIII close: Ambrose — efficacious FIGURE; figurative words + real presence — stop before §.XIX

On the Eucharist ch. 4: Ambrose does not mean bread becomes identically Christ’s body, but His EFFICACIOUS FIGURE.

So Wycliffe holds both: Institution words figurative, and the most real presence of Christ’s body — source of all Eucharistic efficacy — fully acknowledged. Stop before §.XIX.

Latin

Idem alibi, libro de Eucharistia cap. 4. Sanctus (inquit) Ambrosius non intendit dicere, quòd panis fiat identicè corpus Christi, sed quod fiat ejus FIGURA EFFICAX. Observa, FIGURAM EFFICACEM Wiclephum in Cœna statuere, quâ ratione & verba institutionis figuratè intelligenda, & præsentiam interim corporis Christi realissimam, à qua omnis Eucharistiæ efficacitas promanat, in S. Eucharistia omninò admittendam esse, contendit.

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