Iudicium D. Philippi Melanchthonis De controversia Coenae Domini

...and I in you. Likewise: I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. And in these true consolations, He makes us members of Himself, and testifies that He will give life to our bodies. Thus the ancients explain the Lord's Supper. But some call this true and simple doctrine concerning the fruit "buskins" original: "cothurnos"; a reference to high tragic boots, implying the doctrine is pretentious or theatrical, and they demand to know if the body is in the bread or in the species of bread, as if the Sacrament were instituted for the sake of the bread and that Papistic adoration. Afterwards, they devise ways to include it in the bread; some have dreamed up conversion, others transubstantiation, others ubiquity. All these monstrous things are unknown to learned antiquity.

Heshusius denies that he agrees with Origen, who calls the bread and wine σύμβολα τοῦ σώματος κỳ αἵματος symbols of the body and blood. He disparagingly rejects Clement of Alexandria. He will pronounce the same judgment upon Augustine, Ambrose, Prosper, Dionysius, Tertullian, Bede, Basil,