RESPONSIO.

continues from previous page: inconveniences, and indeed many blasphēma blasphemous things, and enumerates them. And although he has recounted eight (which are both monstrous and entirely necessary consequences of his own explanation), he has astutely annotated not all of them to decline the odium of such an absurd interpretation, but a few out of many, and light ones instead of the most grave. Nay, he even thinks he has responded abundantly to all those objections and contrary arguments, if he has simply set forth that light elbow-room of his and keeps singing, Christ said this, Christ wished this. A swift way to escape, indeed, if only it were safe: but it is one that will by no means satisfy pious and sensible men. Heresy is not of the scripture, says Hilary, but of the understanding, and it is not the speech but the sense that is called into controversy. Therefore, Selneccer foresees that these atopa absurdities follow from his opinion, and that necessarily, provided that true and substantial flesh and blood of Christ (which has now been received into the highest heaven) is present with the bread and wine of the holy Supper by bodily and essential presence. First, that that essential flesh of Christ descends from heaven. 2. That it is associated with the bread and wine by some kind of bodily conjunction, and assists it. 3. That in as many places and regions as the Bread and Wine of the Supper is distributed, at the same time it is extended. 4. That the body of Christ is everywhere, which nevertheless even after glorification remained not only a body but also truly a human body. 5. That some body is established without place. 6. That the same thing is both