# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S133
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms.    133

...tionem, manducationem et bibitionem; quae praesentia non est essentialis conversio panis in corpus et vini in sanguinem Christi, quam transsubstantiationem vocant; neque est corporis ad panem ac sanguinis ad vinum extra usum coenae localis aut durabilis affixio; neque est panis et corporis Christi personalis unio, qualis est divinae et humanae naturae in Christo unio; neque est localis inclusio corporis in panem; neque est impanatio; neque incorporatio in panem; neque est consubstantiatio, qua panis cum corpore Christi et vinum cum ipsius sanguine in unam massam physicam coalescat; neque est naturalis inexistentia, neque delitescentia corpusculi sub pane, neque quicquam hujusmodi carnale aut physicum (Gerh.); neque descensus e coelis et de dextra Dei, quem sequitur deinde iterum in coelum et ad dextram patris ascensus.    (Calov.)

We believe, teach, and confess in the sacrament of the Eucharist a true, actual, and essential presence, presentation, eating, and drinking of the body and blood of Christ — a presence which is not an essential conversion of the bread into the body and of the wine into the blood of Christ, which they call transubstantiation; nor is it a local or durable affixion of the body to the bread and of the blood to the wine outside the use of the Supper; nor is it a personal union of the bread and the body of Christ such as is the union of the divine and human natures in Christ; nor is it a local enclosure of the body within the bread; nor is it an im-breading, nor an em-bodying into the bread; nor is it a co-being by virtue of which the bread with the body of Christ and the wine with his blood would melt together into one physical mass; nor is it a natural indwelling, nor a hiding-away of a small body beneath the bread, nor anything else of this fleshly or physical kind; nor a descent from heaven and from the right hand of God, which is then followed in turn by an ascent back into heaven and to the right hand of God.

38. Iisdem dictum est: manducate, quibus dictum est: bibite; vel igitur totum sacramentum dandum est solis presbyteris, vel simul etiam laicis.    (Gerh.)

To the same persons it is said: Eat, to whom it is said: Drink; therefore either the whole sacrament is to be given to the presbyters alone, or else to the laity as well.

39. Loquitur apostolus 1 Cor. 10:20, 21, non de facto, sed de jure.    (Quenstedt.)

The apostle in 1 Cor. 10:20-21 speaks not of what does happen, but of what ought to happen.

40. Sacramentalis manducatio est medium, spiritualis manducatio finis.    (Gerh.)

The sacramental eating is the means, the spiritual eating the end.

41. Indigni manducant corpus Christi sacramentaliter, at non uniuntur mystice.    (G. Koenig.)