THEODORI BEZÆ

...since we should rather humanely cover and excuse both, mindful of our own condition as well.

Later, namely on page 13 and following, you complain most gravely that those words of Christ, "The flesh profits nothing," are cast against you—that is, against the carnal eating which you establish—which Luther expressly denies are to be taken concerning the flesh of Christ, but only concerning carnal understanding and sense. As if the speech by which the carnal eating of the flesh of Christ is refuted belonged nothing at all to the flesh of Christ: or as if the carnal, or (as Luther speaks, writing on that place) corporal eating there rebuked by Christ, were indeed different from this eating of yours which you call oral: as if, finally, we were taking away the communication of the flesh of Christ itself when we assert that it is entirely of the faithful mind, not of the tooth: otherwise it will profit nothing, as Christ expressly declares here.