A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §633 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.II: Augustine antitheses — spiritual eat/drink; sacrament vs virtue; visible vs invisible body

Augustine’s antitheses (via Picherellus): something spiritually eaten and drunk; flesh and blood vs their sacrament; sacrament vs the sacrament’s virtue; what is taken in the sacrament vs what is eaten in the sacrament’s truth.

Further: eat the Lord’s bread vs eat the Lord as bread; sacrament celebrated visibly vs understood spiritually; eat the body itself vs not; invisibly vs visibly (Joh. Tracts).

Latin

Ut de verbis Apost. serm. 2. esse in Cœna aliquid quod spiritualiter manducatur, spiritualiter bibitur, & in Joh. tract. 26. esse carnem & sanguinem, & esse carnis & sanguinis sacramentum, & de verbis Apostoli serm. 2. esse aliud sacramentum, aliud virtutem sacramenti, esse aliquid quod sumitur in sacramento, & esse aliquid, quod ipsâ (Sacramenti) veritate manducatur & bibitur. in Johann. tractat. 59. Panem Domini manducare, & panem Dominum manducare, in Psal. 98. visibiliter celebrari sacramentum & Spiritualiter intelligi Sacramentum Epist. ad Cæsar. Ipsum corpus manducare, & non ipsum corpus manducare: Ipsum invisibiliter, & non ipsum visibiliter, in Johan. tract. 26.

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