A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §704 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.III (3): Augustine/Zeno — outside Christ they eat sacrament unto condemnation

(3) Those outside Christ’s communion by malice who still take the Lord’s table eat eternal ruin to themselves — so Augustine and many Fathers.

Augustine: without abiding in Christ they do not eat spiritually, even if teeth press the sacrament unto condemnation. Zeno of Verona: the one in whom the Devil dwells does not eat the Lord’s flesh, though he seem to communicate with the faithful (Jn 6).

Latin

(3) De iisdem omnibus, seu indignè communicantibus, qui per malitiam suam & improbitatem extra communionem Christi positi, nihilominus mensæ Domini communicant, eos sibi æternum exitium comedere, & Augustini, & multorum aliorum Patrum testimonia exstant. Ita enim denuo Augustinus: Ille qui non in Christo manet, & Christus in illo, non edit spiritualiter carnem ejus & sanguinem ejus bibit, etiamsi visibiliter & carnaliter dentibus premat, (non, corpus Christi & sanguinem) sed Sacramentum Corporis & Sang. Christi, seu potius edit & bibit Sacramentum tantæ rei, in condemnationem. Cui prælusit Zeno Veronensis, Origini coævus: Verendi causa est, ait, eum, in quo Diabolus habitat, non edere carnem Domini, nec bibere ejus Sanguinem, etiamsi videatur cum fidelibus communicare: Quandoquidem verba Domini ita habent: Qui manducat carnem meam & bibit Sanguinem meum, ille in me manet & ego in ipso.

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