A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §701 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.III (1): Scultetus — Judas ate bread of Lord by mouth, not Lord-bread by faith

Scultetus of Hamburg rises to that Augustine: if Judas was at the feast, he ate the Lord’s bread with the mouth, not the Lord-bread by faith.

Even for Judas the bread was external communion of Christ’s body — Christ said to him as to the rest, “this bread is my body” (Discuss. Univers. Reform. §.258).

Latin

Testimonium hoc Augustini adeò luculentum est, ut etiam Clarissimus Scultetus Hamburgensis eidem assurgat, dicens: Si Judas interfuit S. epulo, manducavit ille panem Domini ORE, non autem panem Dominum per fidem. Addens interim: Ipsi quoque Judæ, panis fuit communio corporis Christi (puta externa): Æque enim Judæ, ac reliquis Apostolis, dictum est à Christo: Non: Hoc, quod cum pane do, sed; Hoc, seu, hic panis, est corpus Christi. Discuss. Univers. Reform. §. 258. pag. 160.

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