Iudicium D. Philippi Melanchthonis De controversia Coenae Domini

they might say the body of CHRIST is enclosed outside of consumption within the species of bread, or with the bread: and they demand adoration, just as Morlinus said in Brunswick, "You must not say 'Dummum' original: 'Dum mum'; rather you must say 'what is this' that the priest has in his hand."

Sarcerius orders that the fallen particles be collected, and after the earth is scraped away, be burned. When we were at Worms two years ago, a question was sent to us from a certain court: "Does the body of CHRIST descend into the stomach?" Such monstrous questions being rejected, it is more useful to retain the form of the words of Paul, and for men to be rightly taught concerning the fruit. One can look at the form of the words of the Supper in the Mecklenburg Examination: where there is also an admonition concerning the fruit of the Supper. The Son of God is present in the ministry of the Gospel, and there He is certainly efficacious in the believers. And He is present not for the sake of the bread, but for the sake of the man, just as He says: "Remain in me, and I..."