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

the impious, the faithless, hypocrites, the wicked, the unworthy, and the scornful take in the Lord's Supper; but they by no means take the essential body of Christ itself. Therefore, Augustine rightly said of Judas the traitor, original: "Sumpfit panem Domini, nō sumpfit panem Dominum" He took the bread of the Lord, he did not take the bread who is the Lord. Only the pious and the truly faithful take that body of Christ which is essential, because only they have faith, which is the only hand, and mouth, and stomach by which that true and essential body of Christ can be grasped, eaten, digested, pass into us, and be joined with us. Therefore, when Selneccer says that the true and essential body and the true blood of Christ are exhibited, given, and delivered in fact to all who eat the Bread in the Church, he sins doubly: first, because he takes the cause for the non-cause and assumes a non-consequence for a consequence due to the great ambiguity of this word, Exhibits. For it does not follow: Christ exhibits, that is, offers, his true body to all who eat the Bread in his Supper; therefore, all who eat the Bread in the Lord's Supper take the true body of Christ in fact. For it would be permissible to argue thus: This rising sun exhibits, that is, offers, its light to all living in the same hemisphere; therefore, all these people use that light of the sun. Who does not see this to be false, when even the blind and people shut in darkness can by no means enjoy that light of the sun? For as there is the keenness of sight or the very faculty of seeing in these physical eyes, so there is faith in our souls. Therefore, just as those who lack sight do not grasp the sun, however shining and offered it may be, so those who do not have faith do not take the true body of Christ at all.

Augustine on John, Tractate 59