# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S129
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume VIII.    May 1862.    No. 5.

Theological Axioms.

XX. On the Holy Supper.

1. Verba institutionis sunt fundamentum probationis, articuli de unione hypostatica duarum naturarum in Christo et sessione humanae naturae ad dextram Dei fundamentum refutationis; illa exprimunt voluntatem, hi facultatem; illa ostendunt, corpus et sanguinem praesentia esse, hi, praesentia esse posse.    (Gerhard.)

The words of institution are the ground of the proof; the articles of the personal union of the two natures in Christ and of the sitting of the human nature at the right hand of God are the ground of the refutation; the former express the will, the latter the capacity; the former show that body and blood are present, the latter that they can be present.

2. God has and knows various ways of being present in a given place, and not only the single way which the enthusiasts foist upon him, which philosophy calls local or spatial.    (Luther.)

3. Christ's one body has three ways, or all three ways at once, of being present: first, the comprehensible, bodily way; second, the incomprehensible, spiritual way; third, the divine, heavenly way.    (Luther.)

4. "If the enthusiasts can produce, in every language spoken on earth, a single passage in which 'is' means as much as 'signifies,' then they shall have won their case."    (Luther.)

5. "In the second place, it is also not true that such a trope of Oecolampadius's (body for the sign of the body) is found in any common speech or language in the whole world, and whoever brings me a solid example of it, to him I will give my neck."    (Luther.)

6. "It is the failing of the lofty spirits (who imagine they see a trope in the words of institution) that they do not properly understand rhetoric, grammar, or, as they call it, the trope, as it is taught in the children's schools."    (Luther.)

7. "Hoc est corpus meum," est propositio exhibitiva, in qua subjectum notat totum complexum, praedicatum exprimit dignius et sensui minus obvium.    (Gerh.)

["This is my body" is an exhibitive proposition, in which the subject denotes the whole complex, while the predicate expresses the more excellent [reality], less obvious to sense.]

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