Annotatio V §.IV THIRD genus (2)–(3): sensual; Capernaite; flesh profits nothing — stop mid-§.IV
THIRD (2)–(3): Oral would be sensual (felt by taste) — yet no one, not even the mystic believer, has ever felt Christ’s Body eaten. By being Oral it is Capernaite — whether immediate or through bread, physical or hyperphysical, mouth-only or down to the stomach.
Alone it avails nothing (Jn 6:63): Theophylact and Zwingli read ‘flesh profits nothing’ of Capernaite/oral (or merely sacramental) chewing — slain flesh saves; carnal chewing does not vivify. End of section.
Latin
(2) Sensualis foret, seu gustui exposita, quia omnis cibus, oraliter manducatus, sentitur manducari; sed Corpus Christi nemo hactenus sensit à se manducari, ne fidelis quidem Christóque mysticè unitus, quotiescunque etiam, quantâque fide & persuasione, arctiorem cum Christo Communionem consequendi, Cœnam S. accessit. Quin Capernaitica foret, eô ipsô, quia Oralis, quandoquidem sic Corporalis & Carnalis eóque Capernaitica, sive immediatè, sive mediante pane, fiat; sive physicô, sive hyperphysicô modô perficiatur; sive momentanea sit inque ore desinat, sive cum mora temporis ad guttur tandemque ad stomachum, manducatum deferatur. (3) Sola & per se considerata (a) non valet quicquam, Johan. 6, 63. he de sarx ouk ophelei ouden dicit Christus; Vult verò, non carnem suam per se spectatam, nihil quicquam valere, sed, vel carnem in oppositione Spiritûs, vel, si caro Christi respicitur, intelligitur caro Christi tam Capernaiticè & Oraliter, quàm tantùm Sacramentaliter comesta: sic enim Theophylactus in hunc locum: he de sarx tout’ esti to sarkikôs auta endechesthai, ouden ophelei, Et Zwinglius noster in eundem: Caro CHRISTI plurimùm omnino, imò immensum prodest, sed casa, non carnaliter ambesa. Casa nos servat à cæde, non, carnaliter manducata. (b) Non vivificat, sive sit panis, sive carnis Christi, cum, vel sine pane: Oralis Manducatio panis, non potest vivificare: hoc enim est opus solius Dei; Nec carnis Christi Manducatio propria vivificat; hanc enim cùm Capernaitæ intelligerent, respondet Christus. Spiritus est qui vivificat, Caro non prodest quicquam.