Annotatio VI §.V AD PRIUS: Edite/Hoc — bread (Luther) or spiritual mode already in Jn 6
The prior argument is futile: “Eat, this is my body” does not prove spiritual food is taken corporally/orally.ly/orally.ly/orally.
Either Christ means the bread by “this” (Luther, many places — what hands took, broke, gave), or if he means his body, the eating-mode is the spiritual one he already taught in John 6 before the institution.
Latin
Frustra excipitur AD PRIUS: Spiritualem cibum, etiam corporaliter oraliterque accipi posse, quando à Christo jubetur ita accipi, dicente: Edite, Hoc est Corpus meum. Resp. (a) de pane Christum loqui, quem per Hoc intelligit, teste Luthero pluribus in locis, utpote quem solum corporalibus manibus acceperat, fregerat & dederat, de eodem dicendo: Hoc est corpus meum. (b) Si item de Corpore suo locutus Christus est, & istud edere jussit, utique modum edendi haud alium intellexit, quàm à se, jam ante Cœnæ S. Institutionem, Joh. 6. edoctum, i. e. solum Spiritualem.