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to his own judgment: because the unclean [man] presumed to approach the Sacraments of Christ.
Let us be more delighted by these pious sentiments of such a great man than by the πραττολογίαις empty talk and ἀμφολογίαις ambiguities of the Sophists: and let us add the ὁμόψηφα unanimous opinions declared by the ancient Doctors.
Origen, in his commentary on Numbers, says: We are said to drink the Blood of Christ, not only in the rite of the Sacraments, but also when we receive His words.
Chrysostom, in his commentary on Matthew, teaches: Christ, while instituting the Supper, partook of the same Signs. Now, if the bread were the natural body of Christ, or if it had hidden itself corporally within the bread, then He would have eaten His own Body: and when He drank from the cup, He would have drunk His own blood: which no sane person would easily admit.
However, may that common rationale of the promise of grace and the Sacraments always shine before our minds, which are the visible words of God, and which signify and represent to the eyes the same thing that the promise of grace announces to the ears: namely, that we rejoice in the spiritual communion of the body and blood of Christ. Therefore, let us consider again and again, not so much how those two [elements] are joined with the symbols, but by what means we ourselves may enjoy them.
But I pray to the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, that He may lead us into all truth through the Holy Spirit: that He may bring back those who wander to the path of truth, and that He may either convert or restrain those who are τὰς αἱρεσέντας ὑμᾶς dividing/heretical.
To the same omnipotent and truthful θεανθρώπω God-man, you, most desired...