Annotatio IV §.XXII close: Strimesius prefers posterior + crucified/shed; Philip of Hesse to Luther
Strimesius judges the posterior better: the same crucified body and poured blood are SPIRITUALLY present and SPIRITUALLY received — even as crucified and poured on the cross — nearer Institution and the thing’s nature.
Philip of Hesse to Luther for the Zwinglians: a clarified body the belly cannot feed can scarcely be eaten except by believers through faith — so the harder Lutheran sentence seems unnecessary.
Latin
POSTERIOREM hanc expositionem & ego potiorem arbitror, addens: Idem corpus Christi, quod pro nobis crucifixum est, & sanguinem eundem, qui pro nobis effusus est, in Cœna SPIRITUALITER præsentia esse & à nobis SPIRITUALITER accipi, imò etiam, quatenus tùm istud crucifixum, tum hic in ara crucis effusus est… tam verbis Institutionis Christi… quàm naturæ rei, propius accedit… Unde porrò… ingeniosè sic colligente Illustrissimo Principe Lutheranô, Philippo Hassiæ Landgravió, in Epistola ad Lutherum pro Zwinglianis…: Cumque Christus, scribit, quia clarifactum corpus habet, quo Venter cibari nequit, vix aliter manducari possit, quàm à Credentibus & per fidem; Hæc, inquam, cum ita se habeant, mihi sententia vestra videtur durior & non necessaria esse.