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

continues from previous page: body is called uncircumscribed original: "ἀπερίγραπτον", yet it is affirmed to exist. 7. That the most sweet and most sacred body of our Lord Jesus Christ is wretchedly torn into pieces by those who nevertheless participate in the Lord’s Supper. 8. That finally, that sacred and essential body of Christ is eaten and crushed by the physical mouth and teeth (which can only be perceived by the faith of the heart). These things necessarily follow from the preceding interpretation of Selneccer; they overturn the analogy of Christian faith; and since these individual points are themselves plainly horrible and blasphemous, who will safely disregard and fly over everything, collected in this way, as Selneccer the rhētodiōktēs speech-hunter demands they be passed over? But since we decline and turn away from such grave and open blasphemies in the doctrine of the Christian faith, we become, to these secure minds (not to mention that he so often in his writings invents? Muhammadans, Epicureans, Turks, Atheists, etc. if we pass them by), hateful and detestable to all pious people, which is much more to be feared. Indeed, he himself is too secure, he who so lightly skips over and dismisses aschētōs without restraint all these things that so manifestly fight against the word of God and the entire analogy of faith (which Paul explicitly warns must be retained). And yet he does not say everything: but after he has dissolved these few and lighter points, we will object the rest to him. But because Selneccer says that such absurdities were never even objected to the Scholastics themselves,