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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §646

Annotatio V §.IV THIRD genus (2)–(3): sensual; Capernaite; flesh profits nothing — stop mid-§.IV

THIRD (2)–(3): Oral would be sensual (felt by taste) — yet no one, not even the mystic believer, has ever felt Christ’s Body eaten. By being Oral it is Capernaite — whether immediate or through bread, physical or hyperphysical, mouth-only or down to the stomach.

Alone it avails nothing (Jn 6:63): Theophylact and Zwingli read ‘flesh profits nothing’ of Capernaite/oral (or merely sacramental) chewing — slain flesh saves; carnal chewing does not vivify. Stop mid-§.IV.

Latin

(2) Sensualis foret, seu gustui exposita, quia omnis cibus, oraliter manducatus, sentitur manducari; sed Corpus Christi nemo hactenus sensit à se manducari, ne fidelis quidem Christóque mysticè unitus, quotiescunque etiam, quantâque fide & persuasione, arctiorem cum Christo Communionem consequendi, Cœnam S. accessit. Quin Capernaitica foret, eô ipsô, quia Oralis, quandoquidem sic Corporalis & Carnalis eóque Capernaitica, sive immediatè, sive mediante pane, fiat; sive physicô, sive hyperphysicô modô perficiatur; sive momentanea sit inque ore desinat, sive cum mora temporis ad guttur tandemque ad stomachum, manducatum deferatur. (3) Sola & per se considerata (a) non valet quicquam, Johan. 6, 63. he de sarx ouk ophelei ouden dicit Christus; Vult verò, non carnem suam per se spectatam, nihil quicquam valere, sed, vel carnem in oppositione Spiritûs, vel, si caro Christi respicitur, intelligitur caro Christi tam Capernaiticè & Oraliter, quàm tantùm Sacramentaliter comesta: sic enim Theophylactus in hunc locum: he de sarx tout’ esti to sarkikôs auta endechesthai, ouden ophelei, Et Zwinglius noster in eundem: Caro CHRISTI plurimùm omnino, imò immensum prodest, sed casa, non carnaliter ambesa. Casa nos servat à cæde, non, carnaliter manducata. (b) Non vivificat, sive sit panis, sive carnis Christi, cum, vel sine pane: Oralis Manducatio panis, non potest vivificare: hoc enim est opus solius Dei; Nec carnis Christi Manducatio propria vivificat; hanc enim cùm Capernaitæ intelligerent, respondet Christus. Spiritus est qui vivificat, Caro non prodest quicquam.

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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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