Chapter 9: The Apostle and Bread
was wine before. But here the sense judgeth of changing the wine into vinegar, which happeneth not in the Eucharist, whereas neither the sense nor reason, nor yet the holy scripture driveth us to confess such a changing as the other is.
They object a place out of John in the second chapter: When the governor of the feast had tasted the water which was made wine: whereby they will show, that the wine newly brought forth by the miracle of Christ, doth still retain the name of water. But Christ said not simply, "Water," but, "Water which was made wine." But this declaration shall they not find in the holy scriptures, that bread is said to be turned into the body of Christ.
Chapter 9:
The Apostle and Bread They fly also sometimes to the sixth chapter of John, so as they say, that the Apostle calleth bread in this place: not bread, that is, of wheat, or common bread, but the body of the Lord, which in the sixth chapter of John is called bread, where Christ said: I am the bread of life. But against them maketh that which Paul saith: The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? because it cannot agree with the body of Christ that it should be broken, seeing it is written: Thou shalt not break a bone of him.
But these so sharp-witted men, although they have found in the sixth chapter of John, that Christ called Himself bread, where I pray you shall they find that He called Himself wine? For so much as in this supper, the other sign is called wine: namely in those words of the Evangelist: I will not hereafter drink of the fruit of this vine. But there is no doubt but that vines bring not forth accidents, but wine. Further it is to no purpose which is spoken of the fathers with great consent, that the mystical body is