Ad Nicolai Selnecceri librum, qui inscribitur Necessaria et brevis repetitio, etc. in quo exegesis saxonica oppugnatur, brevis, modesta et necessaria Lamberti Danaei responsio

terrestrial and a spiritual thing, according to the saying of Irenaeus. We say its spiritual thing is the very substantial body of our Lord Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, having suffered for us, buried, and which on the third day rose from the dead, from whose side, pierced by a lance, flowed blood and water. We say, however, the terrestrial thing is Bread and Wine, which, as Augustine says, are named the body and blood of Christ in their own sacramental way. We contend, therefore, that the elements are by no means to be confused with the thing of the Sacrament, that is, Bread with the essential body of Christ itself. Therefore, we concede that the body of Christ itself, which is the thing signified or the thing of the sacrament, is the essential or substantial body of Christ itself, not typical, not symbolic, but that very thing which was born of the Virgin Mary, etc. We say, however, that the Bread and Wine (which are the very signs of this sacrament and are called the body and blood of Christ) are and are called the Body and Blood of Christ only typically, symbolically, and metonymically. We deny that those epithets phantasikon imaginary, allēgorikon allegorical, metaphorikon metaphorical, or katachrēstikon improperly used were ever used by our people; we respond that they were devised by Nicolaus Selneccer to weigh down our excellent cause and were suggested by an intemperance of spirit (by which he shows himself to be much agitated in this writing). Although neither allegories, nor metaphors, nor the katachrēseis improper usages of words themselves are in the Holy Scripture (accommodating themselves to the weakness of our understanding)

in the Epistle to Boniface