# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S130
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130    Theological Axioms.

The expression "this is my body" belongs to the formulas of presentation, according to which the subject denotes the thing taken as a whole, while the predicate expresses (only) the more important thing, the one less perceptible to the senses.

8. Τὸ δεικτικὸν "hoc" non respicit solum panem, sed totum συμπεπλεγμένον.    (Gerh.)

The demonstrative little word "this" (in: this is my body) refers not to the bread alone, but to the whole taken together.

9. Distinctae sunt propositiones: Hoc est corpus meum, et: Panis est corpus Christi; prior est ἔγγραφος, posterior ἄγραφος; prior est ipsius Christi, posterior doctorum ecclesiae.    (Gerh.)

These are different propositions: This is my body, and: The bread is Christ's body; the former is used in Scripture, the latter does not occur in Scripture; the former is Christ's own expression, the latter that of the teachers of the church.

10. Symbola externa in sacramentis V. T. fuerunt tantum σημαντικά rei coelestis, sed in sacramentis N. T. symbola externa sunt μεταδοτικά et προσφερόμενα rei coelestis.    (Gerh.)

The outward symbols in the sacraments of the Old Testament were only such as signified the heavenly thing, but in the sacraments of the New Testament the outward symbols are such as impart and carry with them the heavenly thing.

11. Ἀπὸ γῆς ἄρτος προσλαμβανόμενος τὴν ἔκκλησιν τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκέτι κοινὸς ἄρτος ἐστίν, ἀλλ' εὐχαριστία ἐκ δύο πραγμάτων συνεστηκυῖα, ἐπιγείου τε καὶ οὐρανίου.    (Irenaeus adv. haer. IV, 18. 5.)

The earthly bread is, when it receives the invocation of God, no longer common bread, but a thanksgiving consisting of two things, an earthly and a heavenly.

12. Verbis: "quod pro vobis datur", non indicatur qualitas, sed veritas corporis Christi.    (Hoepfner.)

By the words, "which is given for you," what is indicated is not the quality, but the reality, of the body of Christ.

13. Datur in sacra coena corpus Christi, quod, non quatenus est resuscitatum, vivum et gloriosum.    (Hoepfner.)

There is given in the Holy Supper the body of Christ, which is given not insofar as it is risen, living, and glorified.

14. Cum dicimus, corpus Christi esse praesens in coena substantialiter, vel essentialiter, aut corporaliter, exprimimus objectum vel veritatem praesentiae, non modum, quem dicimus esse supernaturalem, mysticum, spiritualem et impervestigabilem.    (Hoepfner.)

When we say that the body of Christ is substantially or essentially or bodily present in the Supper, we thereby express the object or the reality of the presence, not its manner, which we say to be supernatural, mysterious, spiritual, and unfathomable.

15. "That we sometimes speak thus: Christ's body is in the bread, happens