Iudicium D. Philippi Melanchthonis De controversia Coenae Domini

because he has mandated silence to those wrangling on both sides, lest a distraction be made in the tender Church, and the weak be disturbed in that place and its vicinity. And I would wish that the wranglers on both sides were absent. Secondly, with the contentious removed, it is profitable for the remainder to agree upon one form of words. And in this controversy, it would be best to retain the words of Paul: The bread which we break, is the koinonia communion/participation of the body. And one must speak copiously about the fruit of the Supper, so that men may be invited to the love of this pledge, and its frequent use. And the term koinonia communion must be explained. It does not say that the nature of the bread is changed, as the Papists say. It does not say, as the Bremensians say, that the bread is the substantial body of CHRIST. It does not say, as Heshusius says, that the bread is the true body of CHRIST: but that it is a koinonia communion; that is, that by which there is an association with the body of CHRIST: which happens in the usage, and indeed not without thought: as when mice gnaw the bread. The Papists, and those like them, fight most bitterly so that