# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S132
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132    Theological Axioms.

25. Distribuitur cum pane corpus et cum vino sanguis Christi, non quia creditur, sed ut credatur.    (Quenstedt.)

Christ's body is distributed with the bread and his blood with the wine, not because it is believed, but so that it may be believed.

26. Recitationi verborum institutionis haec (magica) vis non tribuenda, ut corpus et sanguinem Christi occulta aliqua virtute verbis inhaerente praesentia faciat.    (Gerh.)

To the recitation of the words of institution this (magical) power is not to be ascribed, as though it made the body and blood of Christ present through some hidden power inhering in the words.

27. As this word, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth," spoken but once, is nevertheless always effectual in nature, so that it grows and multiplies: so also this word, "This is my body, this is my blood," spoken once, is nevertheless effectual to this very day and until his coming, and brings it about that in the church's Supper his true body and blood are present.    (Chrysostom, cited in the Book of Concord.)

28. Christus non dicit: Hoc est corpus meum, comedite; sed: comedite, hoc est corpus meum.    (Hoepfner.)

Christ does not say (first): This is my body, eat; but: (first) eat, this is my body.

29. Christus dicendo dedit et dando dixit.    (Luther.)

Christ gave in speaking and spoke in giving.

30. Sacramentalis unio non fit, nisi in distributione.    (Quenstedt.)

The sacramental union takes place only in the distribution.

31. Unio sacramentalis est transitoria.    (Hoepfner.)

The sacramental union is transitory.

32. Unio sacramentalis non est absoluta, sed ordinata et determinata respectu actionis sacramentalis.    (Hoepfner.)

The sacramental union is not something unconditional, but is one bound to an order and determined by the sacramental action.

33. Fractio panis non est actus formalis, sed ministerialis et praeparationis, qui igitur libere sive in sive ante coenam perfici potest.    (Quenst.)

The breaking of the bread is not an act belonging to the essence (of the Supper), but a ministerial one belonging to the preparation, which can therefore be freely performed either during or before the Supper.

34. Κοινωνία est inter duo unita existentia.    (Quenstedt.)

Fellowship takes place between two existing things that are united.

35. Nihil proprie dici potest communicatio sui ipsius.    (Gerh.)

Nothing can properly be called a communication of itself.

36. Transsubstantiatio evertit rei naturam de qua agit.    (Gerh.)

The doctrine of transubstantiation overthrows the very nature of the thing of which it treats.

37. Credimus, docemus et confitemur in eucharistiae sacramento veram, realem et substantialem corporis et sanguinis Christi praesentiam, exhibi-