A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §675 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.XI: receiving Eucharist ≠ oral eating body; incorruptibility ≠ corporeal feeding

They also teach the faithful’s bodies receive the Eucharistic bread and, receiving, hold resurrection hope — no longer merely corruptible.

But receiving the Eucharist ≠ orally eating Christ’s body; and resurrection hope for receivers ≠ the Author’s reading that corruptible bodies are fed into incorruption by Christ’s incorruptible body and blood.

Latin

Sic etiam corpora nostra, i.e. fidelium, tam Eucharistiam, i.e. panem Eucharisticum, percipere, quàm percipientia, jam non amplius corruptibilia esse, sed spem resurrectionis ad vitam æternam habentia, profitentur. At aliud est, corpora fidelium Eucharistiam percipere; aliud, Ore corporis, corpus Christi manducare; Iterúmque: aliud, corpora fidelium Eucharistiam percipientia, non corruptibilia esse, vel, in morte mansura, sed spem resurrectionis habere; aliud (quomodo Autor Irenæum interpretatur) corpora nostra corruptibilia, corpore & sanguine Christi incorruptibilibus, nutriri & ali, hôcque pacto incorruptibilia fieri.

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