CONSPICILLUM.

as for us, delivered unto death, just as is expressly declared in the words of the institution of the Lord's Supper. And lest you perhaps object that these things were not expressed in the same words in the prior edition, or that this passage was later amended by the author: I reply that, both from the scope of that entire passage and from those things which are immediately added, you could have, and indeed should have, collected that the true perception and communication of the flesh of Christ, now placed in the heavens and from there enlivening His Church, is not at all removed by us, but only that presence which is denied to those now placed on earth, as being diametrically opposed to the true incarnation, ascension, and future return of Christ: and thus, as a hollow and empty thing, even if it were conceded to you. Since, as Luther himself testifies on that passage of John, Christ wills that the corporal eating of the flesh of Christ profits nothing. But what kind of accusation of me is this, after all? I wrote of the Capernaites those who took Christ's words literally and carnally in John 6 in these words: how can this man give us His flesh to eat, not that they were using them as if seeking and desiring to be taught about the manner of eating the flesh of Christ, but that they had signaled that the eating of Christ's flesh was a horror to them. These things I certainly wrote, which I affirm to be true, in no way comparing the stupidity of the Capernaites with the Virgin Mary's