A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §710 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.IV: Ad Inquis. Januarii — sacrament stands for body/blood; figure → proper

In Ad Inquis. Januarii he says the disciples first received “body and blood” not fasting — then swaps in “sacrament”: they need not come already fed to that sacrament.

So the figure is reduced to proper speech.

Latin

Ad inquis. Januar. ad eum modum cum dixisset, liquido apparet quum primùm acceperunt discipuli corpus & sanguinem Domini, non eos accepisse jejunos, paulo post, loco corporis & sanguinis Domini ponit Sacramentum: neque enim, inquit, quia post cibos dedit Dominus, propterea pransi aut cænati, fratres ad illud Sacramentum accipiendum, venire debent. En metonymiam explicatam, figuratámque, in propriam reductam locutionem pag. 181. & 182.

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