 | Robert Manning - Church controversies - 1721 - 754 pages
...Af<-»-jel of Bread in a Man S Hands , and point to it and fay, thit u the living Body of a Man: it being contrary to the common Practice of Mankind , and the common Laws of Speech to call ori« Thing by the Name of another, with which it has ho Manner of RefembUnce or Connexion .' and that... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 pages
...absurd than to hold a bit of bread in one's <hand, and say, this is the living body of a man ; it being contrary to the common practice of mankind, and the...by the name of another, with which it has no manner of resemblance nor connexion, and that too, without giving the persons to whom it is said VOL. I. B... | |
 | Xavier Sutton - 1913 - 220 pages
...hand a piece of bread and say : "This is the living body of a man." For is it not contrary to all the laws of speech to call one thing by the name of another to which it has no manner of resemblance? Shall we say that Christ was trifling on such a solemn occasion... | |
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... is my body, he called a bit of bread his body, though he meant it only as a figure of his body ; now, if this was so, he was guilty of a most gross and shameful absurdity ; for nothing can be more absurd than to hold a bit of bread in one's 