Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

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The Supper of the Lord was instituted a long time after that discourse of Christ concerning the spiritual eating of his flesh. Therefore, the very flesh of Christ in the Supper of the Lord is eaten by the mouth of the body. R. Osiander could certainly just as well have concluded: Therefore the flesh of Christ, which is given in the Supper of the Lord, is not the true food of our souls and the nourishment of eternal life, nor is his blood the drink of souls, since it is so called before the Supper of the Lord was instituted, and in that very discourse of Christ in John chapter 6, if the eating of the flesh of Christ itself—spiritual and sacramental—is different. But who does not see how childish these things are and how poorly concluded? Yet he adds, Christ, instituting his Holy Supper, said of the bread, "This is my body," and of the wine, "This is my blood." Therefore, the very flesh of Christ and the blood itself is really consubstantiated with the Bread and Wine of the Holy Supper. R. Christ did not say, "My flesh is under this, In this, and With this bread." Therefore, Osiander departs from the words of Christ and abandons the τὸ ῥητὸν literal expression. What indeed? If the words and the τὸ ῥητὸν literal expression must be urged, would not the Papists also collect from these words, "Therefore the Bread and Wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ?" And yet here he seems to triumph for himself, even though he concludes so poorly. And so on pages 13, 14, 15, and 16, he chants this triumph of his at length, but [he sees] what he is looking at now, unless he is completely dull, before the victory. Paul said,