AD SELNECCERVM

SELNECCERUS page 11.

1. There is no need to imagine a descent of the body of Christ, such as secure minds think must necessarily happen. There is no need to inquire what the society or conjunction of the body and blood of Christ with the bread
2. and wine may be. There is no need to argue about an extended or co-extended
3. flesh, or about the quantitative ubiquity of flesh, as they say, about which even the scholastics say nothing: much less is there
need to heap up arguments of human wisdom and philosophical arguments concerning local inclusion,
4. concerning physical perigraphē limitation/circumscription, concerning quantity, or
5. the finiteness of the body, or similar things. And a little
6. later, Neither is there need to imagine a Capernaitic or physical
7. chewing of the body and blood of Christ, from which
8. it is certain that pious ears must recoil. But there is a need to
look at and consider the words of institution,
Receive, Eat, this is my body.

DANAEUS.

Irenaeus, Book 4, Chapter 63, writes most beautifully that that is the only sound exposition of the holy scripture which is without danger, without blasphemy, and according to the scriptures. Selneccer in this place by no means acknowledges that his own interpretation of these words of Christ, this is my body, etc., is of this kind. Nay rather, he himself foresees various inconveniences from it