A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §386

Annotatio II NATIVITAS: Rupert’s Genesis gold/fire analogy — bread still bread, yet truly Christ

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Genesis commentary (VI.32): how is visible bread Christ? Like gold in strong fire — still gold to sight, yet truly called and is fire.

So bread brought into Christ’s passion-mystery still seems bread, yet in truth is Christ — a similitude Augsburg brothers later use of iron.

Latin

Tum Commentario in Genesin Lib. 6. cap. 32. his verbis tradito: Quomodo, inquit, panis, qui videtur, est Christus? ad hæc inquam, quomodo qualibet metalli species v. g. aurum sive argentum (nota tamen hîc similitudinem Fratribus Augustanae confessionis usitatam, praecipuè de ferro) valido igni conflatum atque resolutum, re vera & aurum est, & ignis quoque dicitur & est? Etenim aurum videtur & est, quod erat, & tamen verissimè ignis dicitur & est, quod non erat: Idcirco sic omnino panis admotus vel immersus terribili atque ineffabili mysterio passionis Christi, adhuc panis videtur esse, quod erat, & tamen in veritate Christus est, quod non erat.

About this text

Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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