CONSPICILLVM. II

...as Christ expressly declares here. There is, therefore, no need here for some sharp man, such as you require here, who would teach that when an unknown is posited, it is rightly refuted by an unknown, or when a known is denied, it is rightly criticized from the absurdity of the known: but for me, on the contrary, given my stupidity, I would need partly some Oedipus to explain these enigmas of yours to me, and partly some new Carneades to demonstrate to us that it is an unknown mode which is nevertheless performed by the same action of hand and mouth, which happens both to the flesh and blood of Christ itself, and to the natural eating of bread and drinking of common wine.

Is there anything further? Indeed, an inexpiable crime of some sort, committed by us, whom you call the defilers of the body of Christ. For it is written (you say on page 16) in the preface to the orthodox consensus of the Calvinists, "There is no use of the flesh of Christ outside the business of our redemption," that is, finished in the passion among the Calvinists: Ha, the blasphemy of blasphemies. Indeed, Hofmann, what is this matter?

For first, that "finished in the passion" is your own gloss. For since it is certainly clear that the expiation of all our sins is fully satisfied by the sacrifice of Christ...