The Eucharistic Pamphlets of Andreas Bodenstein Von Karlstadt by Karlstadt Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von;Burnett Amy Nelson;

Author:Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von;Burnett, Amy Nelson; [Amy Nelson Burnett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion/Christianity/Luthern
ISBN: 9781612480251
Publisher: PennStateUP
Published: 2012-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

Here, dear brothers, you have three arguments from this verse and statement of Christ, “This is my body which is given for you,” that strongly stand against all papists.6 And they conclude that Christ was not and cannot be in their sacrament. These are the three arguments. The first: Where Christ pointed to the bread and said, “This is my body,” it clearly follows that it is impossible that the body [d4r] of Christ is in the bread. For we do not have in nature or scripture any similitude of bodily things where one thing can be the other that contains it.

Second: If Christ said of the bread, “This is my body, which is given for you,” then all the prophecies, gospels, and the books of the apostles would be false in which the clear suffering of the natural body of the Messiah is described.

Third: Because it was the Lord’s intention in the Supper to speak of the future giving of his body, which would happen after the Supper was held, it follows that Christ did not give his body in the Supper nor did he want to give it in the sacrament when he said, “My body is given for you.” This means the same as, “My body will in the future and after this Supper be given as a food on the cross and not in the sacrament.” Thus these words stand bravely against all papists, old and new, and they bring such words with them to their own defeat, just as Goliath brought his sword and was killed by David with his own sword [1 Sam. 17:50–51].

These wicked people try to do more than they are able, just as Moab gave advice and then was justly mocked. For Christ did not bring his body into the sacrament nor did he command anyone after him to undertake to bring him into the sacrament, much less to give anyone the Lord’s body as a food, whether outside or within the sacrament. For he said, “The bread that I give,” etc., John 6[:51], and through this cut off from them any power to give him as a bread or food to anyone. This is a great presumption of the papists, and it is not only their own willfulness but [also] destructive harm to all Christendom [d4v], which they lead on a line into the trap of idolatry and cause them to adore bread, which is nothing more than bread, so that all recipients of the Lord’s bread make themselves guilty of the body and blood of Christ together with judgment and damnation, as Paul says. For the whole world must hear that up until now they have received the Lord’s bread to the destructive harm of their souls, as I’ve said above. And he is blessed who now recognizes this, takes the path of righteousness, forsakes his errors and henceforth will eat the Lord’s bread in the proper remembrance of the Lord, of his death, and in the discernment of his body.

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