CONSPICILLUM.

that would produce the most monstrous thing: but not that spiritual κοινωνία communion, by which it happens that that very flesh, not by an oral organ but by the organ of faith, apprehended as much when received in the Word as in the Sacraments, becomes so much our own that that very divine virtue which renders the sufferings of that head satisfactory for our sins, and has most fully sanctified and vivified that flesh which is properly and hypostatically united to Him: coupling us also to Himself, not by any real movement of His essence with ours, but by a purely spiritual and ineffable ἐνεργηκοτάτῳ highly active mystery, to constitute the one most holy body of that universe under that mystical head, gradually sanctifies us, and finally vivifies us in our entirety. Thus, therefore, is what he disputes concerning the uselessness of the flesh of Christ to be understood, not as if that flesh simply profits us nothing: although he speaks hyperbolically at times when interpreting these words, both because in controversies of this kind it is very difficult to maintain the mean, and because, conversely, Dr. Luther, pulling this end most vehemently in the opposite direction, would press that substantial eating beyond measure. That this was Zwingli's opinion, not the one that is attributed to him by you, you should have been able to collect even from that.