System of Sacred Theology · §4.14.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Sacramental presence not local or physical; no conversion of elements

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4. Christ's body and blood are present in the Supper neither locally nor in any physical mode, but truly and really without any fiction, united with bread and wine by sacramental union through analogy and mystical relation—not by local inexistence or coexistence.

5. Blessed bread is not converted or transmuted into Christ's body, nor wine into blood; essences remain distinct on both sides even in sacramental union—because Scripture still names bread after consecration (Matt. 26:26; 1 Cor. 11:26-28); because bread is the communion of Christ's body; because Christ said not let this become but this is my body.

Latin

4. Corpus & sanguis Christi neque localiter neque ullo modo physico, sed vere ac realiter, sine fictione ulla in coena praesentia sunt, unita cum pane & vino unione sacramentali per analogiam & relationem mysticam. Non est hic ulla enousia inexistentiae vel synousia coexistentiae per indistinquam localem. 5. Panis benedictus non convertitur aut transmutatur in corpus Christi, nec vinum in sanguinem, sed sicuti ante, ita etiam in unione sacramentali essentia utrobique distincta manent—quia Scriptura nominat panem post consecrationem (Matth. 26:26; 1 Cor. 11:26-28); quia panis est koinonia corporis Christi; quia Christus non dixit hoc fiat sed hoc est corpus meum.

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