THEODORE BEZA

original: "Quomodo fiet hoc?" How shall this be? (Luke 1:34). But what do you collect from that? Namely (you say on page 17), Thus it follows, concerning the flesh of Christ spoken of simply, that it profits nothing, and that what is said about the life-giving flesh of Christ would be vain. Both are false. For Christ does not say that the flesh profits nothing simply, but based on the false hypothesis of the Capernaites, namely as they imagined Christ to have spoken, and as you wish Him to have spoken in the Lord's Supper: that is, eaten by the mouth; since food taken by the mouth does not even provide life to the body, much less be able to bestow immortality upon the taker, which is the work of the Spirit alone, or of Divine power, which the Capernaites should have learned from the preceding miracle that Christ was endowed with. What more? Again (you say on page 18), Thus will be destroyed that concerning which the Calvinists uniquely boast, so that they might indignantly remove the real manducation, namely that the flesh of Christ, perceived substantially in any way, cannot but give life. On the contrary, that in any way, just as it is twisted by you, as if it were taken in many ways, is your own gloss. For we acknowledge no other way of apprehending the flesh of Christ, whether in the simple preaching of the word, or in Baptism, or