THEODORI BEZÆ

But among you, who nevertheless all wish to be called and named Lutherans, you see how well you agree on everything. Some of you certainly establish a synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole, by which you strive in vain to soften the subject, through which it happens that the contained—that is, by your own interpretations, that which is in, under, or with the container—is understood with the container itself, that is, the whole, by the appellation of only one part, namely the bread. Others, however, through the pronoun "This," openly deny that bread is signified, as is clear from the Malbrunian colloquy. Finally, others (you know whom I mean) contend with the greatest clamors that that real presence of the body of Christ in, under, or with the bread depends entirely on the hypostatic union alone, through which it happens that Christ's humanity is just as much everywhere and in all things as Christ's Divinity: it depends, I say, entirely on that, and not on the words of the institution; as if those words merely served to declare that the body, which was previously in, under, or with the bread, is offered to us in the Lord's Supper to be received and eaten. This greatest error they assert to such an extent that they expressly say that they will not exchange even a single word with us about the Lord's Supper henceforth unless this is granted to them.