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The Sports Network
By Phil Neuffer, Associate College Football Editor
GAME NOTES: The No. 11 USC Trojans will continue their quest to re-enter the
national championship race when they welcome in the Colorado Buffaloes for a
Pac-12 conference game at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
A three-game winning streak has USC back within striking distance of the
top-10, as the 5-1 Trojans now sit at No. 11. The Trojans are even
higher (10) in the first BCS rankings of the season. The Trojans' overall
record, which includes a 3-1 tally against Pac-12 foes, has come despite the
squad playing four of the first six games on the road.
"We're excited that we went on the road for four of the first six games and
outside of one (loss) we're 5-1," head coach Lane Kiffin said while looking
forward to a stretch of three games in the next four at LA Coliseum. "We've
got some stuff to work on and get ready to come home."
The first visitor to the Coliseum in almost a month will be the 1-5 Colorado
Buffaloes who have lost back-to-back games entering play. In those two losses
the Buffaloes have been outscored by a margin of 93-31. Most recently the
Buffaloes dropped a 51-17 decision at home to Arizona State. Colorado is just
1-2 in Pac-12 play.
Last season was the first in which Colorado and USC squared off as conference
opponents. USC won that matchup in convincing fashion 43-17 behind a school-
record six touchdown passes from Matt Barkley. The win also increased USC's
perfect record all-time against Colorado to 6-0.
The Buffaloes are the worst scoring team in the Pac-12 (20.8 ppg) this season,
while ranking better than only two other teams in total offense (326.5 ypg).
Jordan Webb has been the man under center this season for Colorado. Webb has
completed 56.5 percent of his passes for 1,141 yards, with eight touchdowns
and four interceptions. Webb has not had an opportunity to really build
consistency, with Colorado second to last in sacks allowed (27) in the Pac-12.
Webb has taken 26 of those quarterback takedowns.
Nelson Spruce (27 receptions, 291 yards, 2 TDs) and Tyler McCulloch (20
receptions, 243 yards, 2 TDs) have been Webb's most consistent targets.
However tight end Nick Kasa has seen a jump in production in the last three
games, with 10 receptions and 199 yards during that stretch. He has also
caught a touchdown pass in each of those games.
The numbers in the run game are not any better than those passing, with
Colorado having just 665 yards rushing on the season, the third worst total in
the Pac-12. Christian Powell (294 yards) and Tony Jones (222 yards) are the
two most productive backs, although Powell was sidelined by injury against
Arizona State.
There's not much the offense can do with how poor Colorado's defense has been
though. The Buffaloes are ranked last in the Pac-12 in both scoring (41.3 ppg)
and total defense (494.2 ypg).
Terrel Smith (52) and Derrick Webb (48) are the two leading tacklers on the
roster, while Chidera Uzo-Diribe has been a solid pass rusher with six sacks.
USC is scoring at a healthy 32.3 points per game clip this season but the
Trojans have not been the prolific offense that was advertised entering 2012.
The Trojans are just seventh in the Pac-12 in total offense (415.2 ypg) and
the vaunted passing attack is ranked just sixth (249.5 ypg).
The passing game's inconsistency was evident in the squad's most recent
matchup against Washington with starting quarterback Matt Barkley throwing for
a season-low 167 yards with one touchdown on 10-of-20 passing. Barkley has
really regressed this season, putting up three games with less than 200 yards
passing and two with a completion percentage of less than 50 percent. Last
season Barkley threw for less than 200 yards only twice and never completed
less than 54.3 percent of his passes.
With Barkley limited, the production of talented receivers Marqise Lee and
Robert Woods also dropped off. Woods had five receptions for 88 yards, while
Lee had season-lows in receptions (two) and yards (32). That game aside, Lee
has been one of the most dangerous offensive weapons in college football this
season, with a Pac-12 leading totals in receptions (54), yards (681) and
touchdowns (seven).
While the passing game struggled to get on the same page it was the Trojans'
rushing attack that carried the squad to the victory over Washington. Penn
State-transfer Silas Redd rushed for 155 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries
for his second game of more than 150 yards this season. Redd now has 570 yards
and six rushing touchdowns this season.
"(Silas has) been very important and a big part of the reason we went to get
him was these last two games," Kiffin said. "Going on the road in a place that
coming into the year has been tough to play he played big."
The real question many had about USC entering this season was on defense and
the Trojans have largely silenced those critics. USC has the second-best
defense in the Pac-12 in terms of total yards (331.5 ypg) and is third in
scoring (18.5 ppg). The unit's ability to force opposing teams to make
mistakes has been key, with the Trojans collecting the third most turnovers in
the Pac-12 (16). That includes a league best 11 interceptions.
"It's the first time in three years we've felt where we go on the road in a
hostile environment we can play to our defense at times," Kiffin said while
crediting his defense with keeping the Trojans in game this season.
T.J. McDonald and Dion Bailey have been impressive with McDonald having a
team-leading 47 tackles. Bailey has 42 tackles and has collected a team-high
four interceptions. Lamar Dawson (12.5 TFL, 7.0 sacks) and Leonard Williams
(8.5 TFL, 5.5 sacks) have been disruptive in opposing backfields.
This matchup has blowout written all over it. Even though Barkley has not
lived up to the lofty expectations, against the weak Colorado defense, he
should be able to light up the scoreboard early and often. Look for USC to go
up big early and cruise to the finish line.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: USC 48, Colorado 7


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I messed up and posted this a second time... but heck, I still think it's fun, and laugh every time I see it. So, here it goes... again...
More HoB RoboCam footage
Here the camera was mounted on a third robot (driven by John Brost - his camera as well), just behind the robots front claws... so ever time it tries to attack an opponent, you can see the claws dropping in front of the camera. The single claw on the robot with the ball caster that can be seen in the video was effective in a surprising way - at one point, it managed to hit the "cancel" button on another robot, shutting it off. Near the end of the video you can also see the effect of earlier prototype Zamor sphere launchers... we were using a friend of ours as a target. The small robot that is seen firing a single shot is completely autonomous: it drives forward, scans for the nearest target, and then reaquires that target and launches a single sphere before retreating back from whence it came.
Something new? Well, now you have an idea of an alternate use of those big colored balls in the NXT kits...
Brian Davis
Jun 30, 2006
Repeat of... more RoboCam footage, and flying spheres...
Posted by: Brian Davis at 8:30 AM
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Just wondering(most likelythere is somthing I am missing), but wasnt this posted earlier called House of Bricks Combat? Could you tell me what I am missing.
- Jun 30, 2006, 10:12:00 AM
Yeah, I thought this was posted before as well - I remember seeing that video and reading the description.
- Jun 30, 2006, 10:29:00 AM
Im glad Im not the only one.
- Jun 30, 2006, 10:32:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
Ah, OK, so I'm clueless. Sorry about that, I thought I *didn't* post it, and couldn't locate it in the archives, but it wasn't on the front page either... ah, I screwed up. Sorry :-|.
Brian Davis
- Jun 30, 2006, 11:12:00 AM
It is still funny anyways.
- Jul 1, 2006, 8:47:00 PM
I love the ball wheel. No more pivot wheel lag time - smooth spins, and cool to boot.
- Jul 2, 2006, 1:59:00 AM
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Whether you want to admit it or not, more than a few Bow Tie racers have lined up against 5-point-slow Mustangs only to discover that they-on rare occasion-aren't actually all that slow. Chances are that in order to get their tiny 302s to run with the bigger 350ci competition, they probably had a set of Trick Flow heads under the hood. Although it entered the marketplace serving the needs of the dark side (where it earned a reputation for phenomenal out-of-the-box performance), Trick Flow has since brought the same venerable formula of budget-oriented horsepower to the Chevy faithful. Today the company offers a plethora of cylinder heads for big-block Chevys and all four generations of small-blocks. From raised-runner 23-degree small-block heads to oval- and rectangle-port big-block heads to monstrous 265cc LSx castings, Trick Flow's diverse product line runs the gamut.
With the competition more fierce now than ever, trying to maintain dominance in the cylinder head market is no easy feat. Al Noe of Trick Flow is well aware of what it takes, and we were happy to listen in as he explained what goes on behind the scenes when developing a new set of heads. As we learned, flowbench numbers aren't everything. Manufacturing a powerful as-cast port is tricky. Furthermore, modern advances in cylinder heads mean that small-displacement combos can now make some serious torque, and hardware once considered exotic like 18-degree top-end kits is more affordable than ever. Tune into the next few pages, because the guy in the other lane could be listening in.
Although Trick Flow heads have helped countless Camaros and Novas stomp Blue Ovals on a regular basis, the company entered the musclecar market in 1983 with its now-legendary A460 Ford heads. At a time when big-block Chevys and Chryslers dominated race tracks, the A460 cylinder heads gave big-block Ford enthusiasts the edge they needed to compete and win. Their success opened the floodgates to over 25 years of Trick Flow's trademark performance and innovation. The company soon discovered the need for affordable, high-quality cylinder heads for small-block Chevys, and developed a set of 195cc casting with Kenny Duttweiler's help. Capable of supporting 500 hp right out of the box, they gave the company instant credibility in the Chevy camp.
"Since that time, based on our customers' input, we have developed many variations of cylinder heads ranging from 18-degree small-block castings to oval- and rectangle-port big-block Chevy offerings. We've also gotten heavily involved with the GM LS engine platform, and our 13.5-degree heads can be had fully CNC-ported with 205-, 215-, 225-, 235-, or 245cc intake runners," Noe explains. "Trick Flow's goal is to make high-performance cylinder heads for everything from a hydraulic flat-tappet, pump-gas 283 to a blown 7-second monster big-block like the one in Denny Terzichs '67 Camaro that won Hot Rod Drag Week in 2007. We will continually innovate, test, and improve our products to make sure they are the best available."
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You have to be a full-blown optimist to have detected any good news in the announcement of this country´s third mad cow in Alabama. But the good news was there, buried deep inside the New York Times instead of on the front page. In most metropolitan daily newspapers you had to really be looking hard to find the news blurb about the most recent bovine to join the mad cow fraternity. And those consumers that did read the story seemed to have taken little notice and went right back to eating their burgers and steaks. The good news is that mad cow is old news.
In a recent letter to its members the NCBA explained why ranchers have enjoyed good times the past couple years. "Economists around this country agree that the cattle prices we have experienced for many months now, prices that began to climb before the Canadian border closure, is the result of two things: tremendous growth in consumer demand and the cattle cycle. A trade association can do little if nothing to affect the cattle cycle, but when it comes to beef demand it is clear the checkoff-funded efforts, many of which are managed by NCBA, have contributed considerably to increasing demand, which is defined as consumers´ willingness to pay increasing prices even as supplies increase. Again, through the leadership of cattlemen, NCBA is the association that gets it done for you."
A publisher in a prominent western livestock newspaper suggests that we should not be celebrating R-CALF´s victory to keep the Canadian border closed because of the damage it will do to packers. He says we´re all in this together. In the same boat, so to speak. And when one end of the boat sinks the other will too. He says that the packers and large feeders have the same goals as ranchers, to which we say . . . horse pucky! Their goals could not be more opposite. The packers and their strategically aligned feeders want to buy your cattle as cheap as they can and you, no doubt, want to sell them as high as you can. Do those sound like common goals to you? No, this is a war and the packers were winning, cruising along in their armor plated battleships, while ranchers were paddling upstream against heavy winds in kayaks and canoes.
And then along came a mad cow and R-CALF.
All the recent media attention regarding Mad Cow Disease has raised some interesting questions. Such as...
Mad Cow Disease and been around for 15 years yet animal industries around the globe have used meat and bone meal as a feed ingredient since World War II. Why has BSE waited until now to raise its ugly head?
On her way out the door to take a job with the UN´s UNICEF, Outgoing Ag Secretary Ann Veneman said she saw no reason to delay reopening the U.S. border to Canadian cattle. "Unless the investigation turns up something that is drastically different than the assumptions that were made in putting together the rule, I wouldn´t see a reason to change it," she said.
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An honest and compelling account of his life and career. Bradley Wiggins is the son of a professional cyclist and he first competed at twelve, and immediately knew that this was what he wanted to do for his career. By the age of twenty, he won his first Olympic medal, in Sydney, before turning to professional road cycling in 2001. Since then Wiggins has developed into one of the UK's most successful cyclists of all time, winning a gold in Athens and double gold in Beijing.
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I've been thinking about this one.
I've set up a neat gallery I want to use on a friends holiday villa site. I'd like to have the gallery pop up over whichever page they're currently on but easily close it and resume where they were without actually changing page?
What is the best was to approach this? The gallery itself can be loaded quite happily within and iframe *hides* I'm just wondering how to pop it up and make it 100% width and height over the background content.
Help much appreciated.
edit: infact - a transition that makes it frop from the top and expand to full width with might make it cooler... first things first though!


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"He felt anybody who bluffed was a weenie, as he would say," Hotchner remembers.
1839, American English, poker term, perhaps from Dutch bluffen "to brag, boast," or verbluffen "to baffle, mislead." An identical word meant "blindfold, hoodwink" in 1670s, but the sense evolution and connection are unclear; OED calls it "one of the numerous cant terms ... which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne." Extended or figurative sense by 1854. Related: Bluffed; bluffing.
"broad, vertical cliff," 1680s, from bluff (adj.) "with a broad, flat front" (1620s), a sailors' word, probably from Dutch blaf "flat, broad." Apparently a North Sea nautical term for ships with flat vertical bows, later extended to landscape features.
1844 as an alternative name for poker; from bluff (v.). As "an act of bluffing" by 1864.
: His courage was all bluff •A noun sense fr 1849 is ''an excuse'' (1870s+)
To use confident pretense as a means of winning or succeeding •The 1674 definition is ''to blindfold or hoodwink''; the game of poker was originally known as bluff (1670s+)
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[perhaps related to, though not derived fr, a late 1700s bluff, ''a blindfold or blinker for a horse'']


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You can - but it's not straightforward. I speak as someone who has accomplished the task.TiannaStarfall wrote:You can never fully delete your Facebook account though - that really annoyed me when I found out. I signed up, couldn't work out what the fuss was about and then removed all my info but couldn't delete my account. I have been thinking of just putting a link to my website there and leaving it at that.
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Your equipment- Mamiya Universal, Mamiya C 330, Canon EOS Elan 2 (my workhorse), all mainly fueled with Kodak Portra, and a Canon EOS 550D.
Influences and photographers you like- I get constantly influenced by so many things, consciously as well as unconsciously...influences I'm quite certain of are: Marcel Duchamp, Roman Signer, Koki Tanaka, Lucas Blalock, David Brandon Geeting, Marlon Kowalski ... many more.
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Note: Originally posted during the 2012 presidential campaign, these are still relevent today, if not more so.
A visitor recently wrote to alert me to how the Romney campaign has been employing a series of graphics like this one to show the gap between Obama's promises and results on a number of issues.
A liberal site called Upworthy, has incorrectly labeled these graphics as venn diagrams, and then proceeded to respond to them. You can see their pathetic offering here.
The visitor posted a response on his blog Slapotics to Upworthy's unworthy effort
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Name: K-Jammin
Hometown: London, England
Height: 6ft 2in
Weight: 220 lb
Heel/Face: Heel
Ring style: Almost identical to Chris Jericho's
Finishing Move: HeadJam! (Super kick)
Signature Moves: Jammin Moonsault, Shining Wizard, Broken Condom ( Neck breaker)
Other moves: 1: Left handed punch 2: Right handed punch etc etc...
Theme tune and video
Promotions worked for (EFeds): JBW, EWNCW
BITW Won/Loss/Draw record: 0/0/0
Titles in EFeds held: Two Time JBW World Heavyweight Champion, One time EWNCW World Heavyweight Champion
Twitter account:@iamjammin
Groups/Tags: The Eye [JBW] K-Flare [JBW]
[In BITW] None.
Bio: Born into a middle class family in small town south of England, KJ has been excluded from every single school he has attended mainly due to fighting. When he was 16, he got fired from his first job in a local shop for having sex with his bosses 40 year old wife. After getting kicked out of his house by his parents at the age of 18 for not being able to help pay rent. KJ joined an illegal underground fight club, but on only the second visit he got rushed to hospital with a punctured lung and a concussion. A few months after that he joined a wrestling school, only to be the only guy in shape. After training there for 9 months he then got kicked out for choking out the trainer and then not letting go. Now with some wrestling skills under his belt, he starting wrestling for local British indies. He then travelled to America and joined the Indie circuit there, making an even bigger impact and making even more enemies. After just 3 months in the American Indie's, he was approached by JBW. KJ jumped at the chance, and is now pissing off audiences on a global scale.


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See the introduction and links to all installments at the top of my John Calvin, Calvinism, and General Protestantism web page; also the online version of the Institutes. Calvin's words will be in blue throughout. All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted.
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"Signs", "represent invisible things": same old same old errors . . .
When attempting familiarly to explain its nature, I am accustomed to set down three things—the thing meant, the matter which depends on it, and the virtue or efficacy consequent upon both. The thing meant consists in the promises which are in a manner included in the sign. By the matter, or substance, I mean Christ, with his death and resurrection. By the effect, I understand redemption, justification, sanctification, eternal life, and all other benefits which Christ bestows upon us. Moreover, though all these things have respect to faith, I leave no room for the cavil, that when I say Christ is conceived by faith, I mean that he is only conceived by the intellect and imagination. He is offered by the promises, not that we may stop short at the sight or mere knowledge of him, but that we may enjoy true communion with him.
But only "spiritually," not physically, as that would be somehow idolatrous or impossible, for inexplicable reasons known only to Calvin.
And, indeed, I see not how any one can expect to have redemption and righteousness in the cross of Christ, and life in his death, without trusting first of all to true communion with Christ himself. Those blessings could not reach us, did not Christ previously make himself ours. I say then, that in the mystery of the Supper, by the symbols of bread and wine, Christ, his body and his blood, are truly exhibited to us,
They are yet they are not . . . if we can train ourselves to simultaneously believe two things that are utterly contradictory, then we will be able to grasp and accept Calvin's convoluted reasoning.
that in them he fulfilled all obedience, in order to procure righteousness for us— first that we might become one body with him; and, secondly, that being made partakers of his substance, we might feel the result of this fact in the participation of all his blessings.
Sounds Catholic, but in context is not.
It's quite comical for Calvin to rail against "superstition" -- given all the fictional and illogical, incoherent innovations he himself has introduced . . .
Here Satan has employed all his wiles, withdrawing the minds of men from heaven, and imbuing them with the perverse error that Christ is annexed to the element of bread.
That is, the biblical, apostolic, patristic, and historic Catholic "error" . . . (we must place things in their proper perspective).
And, first, we are not to dream of such a presence of Christ in the sacrament as the artificers of the Romish court have imagined, as if the body of Christ, locally present, were to be taken into the hand, and chewed by the teeth, and swallowed by the throat.
As the fathers pretty much unanimously believed: so even Protestant historians freely concede. It has nothing particularly to do with "Romish" and everything to do with apostolic and patristic.
This was the form of Palinode, which Pope Nicholas dictated to Berengarius, in token of his repentance, a form expressed in terms so monstrous, that the author of the Gloss exclaims, that there is danger, if the reader is not particularly cautious, that he will be led by it into a worse heresy than was that of Berengarius (Distinct. 2 c. Ego Berengarius).
Berengarius was one of the few men of any note in the entire patristic and early medieval period who questioned the Real Presence and transubstantiation; hence we see Calvin immediately gravitating to him, even before he engages in his usual pretense that St. Augustine supposedly agrees with his novel position. In the article on Berengarius in The Catholic Encyclopedia, we can see from whence Calvin got some of his heretical notions of the Eucharist:
In the Eucharistic controversy of the ninth century, Radbert Paschasius, afterwards abbot of Corbie, in his De Corpore et Sanguine Domini (831), had maintained the doctrine that in the Holy Eucharist the bread is converted into the real body of Christ, into the very body which was born of Mary and crucified. Ratramnus, a monk of the same abbey, defended the opinion that in the Holy Eucharist there is no conversion of the bread; that the body of Christ is, nevertheless, present, but in a spiritual way; that it is not therefore the same as that born of Mary and crucified. John Scotus Erigena had supported the view that the sacraments of the altar are figures of the body of Christ; that they are a memorial of the true body and blood of Christ. (P. Batiffol, Etudes d'histoire et de théologie positive, 2d series, Paris, 1905.)
Unlike Calvin, who was firm in his error, Berengarius waffled and vacillated, but like Calvin, he went his own way over against Rome:
At the Council of Tours (1055), presided over by the papal legate Hildebrand, Berengarius signed a profession of faith wherein he confessed that after consecration the bread and wine are truly the body and blood of Christ. At another council held in Rome in 1059, Berengarius was present, retracted his opinions, and signed a formula of faith, drawn up by Cardinal Humbert, affirming the real and sensible presence of the true body of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. (Mansi, XIX, 900.) On his return, however, Berengarius attacked this formula. Eusebius Bruno abandoned him, and the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey the Bearded, vigorously opposed him. Berengarius appealed to Pope Alexander II, who, though he intervened in his behalf, asked him to renounce his erroneous opinions. This Berengarius contemptuously refused to do. . . . in 1078, by order of Pope Gregory VII, he came to Rome, and in a council held in St. John Lateran signed a profession of faith affirming the conversion of the bread into the body of Christ, born of the Virgin Mary. The following year, in a council held in the same place Berengarius signed a formula affirming the same doctrine in a more explicit way. Gregory VII then recommended him to the bishops of Tours and Angers, forbidding that any penalty should be inflicted on him or that anyone should call him a heretic. Berengarius, on his return, again attacked the formula he had signed, but as a consequence of the Council of Bordeaux (1080) he made a final retraction. He then retired into solitude on the island of St. Cosme, where he died, in union with the Church.
As the article proceeds in its analysis, we see again the similarities of the false premises of both Berengarius' and Calvin's heretical errors: particularly the notion of merely "spiritual presence":
In order to understand his opinion, we must observe that, in philosophy, Berengarius had rationalistic tendencies and was a nominalist. Even in the study of the question of faith, he held that reason is the best guide. Reason, however, is dependent upon and is limited by sense-perception. Authority, therefore, is not conclusive; we must reason according to the data of our senses. There is no doubt that Berengarius denied transubstantiation (we mean the substantial conversion expressed by the word; the word itself was used for the first time by Hildebert of Lavardin); it is not absolutely certain that he denied the Real Presence, though he certainly held false views regarding it. Is the body of Christ present in the Eucharist, and in what manner? On this question the authorities appealed to by Berengarius are, besides Scotus Erigena, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine. These fathers taught that the Sacrament of the Altar is the figure, the sign, the token of the body and blood of the Lord. These terms, in their mind, apply directly to what is external and sensible in the Holy Eucharist and do not, in any way, imply the negation of the real presence of the true body of Christ. (St. Aug. Serm. 143, n.3; Gerbert, Libellus De Corp. et Sang. Domini. n. 4, P.L., CXXXIX, 177.) For Berengarius the body and blood of Christ are really present in the Holy Eucharist; but this presence is an intellectual or spiritual presence. The substance of the bread and the substance of the wine remain unchanged in their nature, but by consecration they become spiritually the very body and blood of Christ. This spiritual body and blood of Christ is the res sacramenti; the bread and the wine are the figure, the sign, the token, sacramentum. . . .
He maintained that the bread and wine, without any change in their nature, become by consecration the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, a memorial of the body crucified and of the blood shed on the cross. It is not, however, the body of Christ as it is in heaven; for how could the body of Christ which is now in heaven, necessarily limited by space, be in another place, on several altars, and in numerous hosts? Yet the bread and the wine are the sign of the actual and real presence of the body and blood of Christ.
Calvin, too, had pronounced rationalistic and nominalistic tendencies. And so we see some of the intellectual background of his heresies in this regard.
Peter Lombard, though he labours much to excuse the absurdity, rather inclines to a different opinion. As we cannot at all doubt that it is bounded according to the invariable rule in the human body, and is contained in heaven, where it was once received, and will remain till it return to judgment, so we deem it altogether unlawful to bring it back under these corruptible elements, or to imagine it everywhere present.
Jesus' body is not "everywhere present." It is sacramentally present in the consecrated bread and wine at Mass. In fact, the very notion of consecration proves that transubstantiation does not involve a "bodily omnipresence" since what was once bread and wine miraculously becomes the Body and Blood of Christ. Therefore, if they were not that before consecration, then this proves that Jesus' body is not omnipresent itself, but becomes present locally during Mass.
Absurdities abound here, but in Calvin's view, not the Catholic position. I agree with what Lutheran pastor Paul T. McCain wrote in response to Calvin's error in this regard:
My quick response to their "how" question about our Lord's human nature is simply this…how was it possible for the Risen Lord to suddenly "appear in the midst of them" among His disciples on Easter? . . . How did His human nature ascend? Or what about the Transfiguration? It seems that was a pretty amazing event for His human nature, a foretaste of what was to come during His glorification? How is God able to create everything out of nothing? How is a Virgin able to conceive? How is that some are saved, and not others? So many "how" questions! . . . A desire to provide a "logical" explanation to these "how" questions is really Calvinism's downfall.
I wrote similarly in a paper on similar types of questions from Protestants:
Jesus could walk through walls after His Resurrection (Jn 20:26), and even a mere man, Philip, could be "caught away" and transported to another place by God (Acts 8:39-40). So some Protestants think that God "couldn't" or "wouldn't" have performed the miracle of the Eucharist? One shouldn't attempt to "tie" God's hands by such arguments of alleged implausibility.
The fact remains that God clearly can perform any miracle He so chooses, and this particular one entails no suspension of the principles of the Incarnation, once the doctrine of Two Natures is correctly understood. Jesus can be both incarnate and present in many places in the Eucharist, just as He can be incarnate and be present spiritually everywhere (something which all Protestants believe). Neither scenario is contradictory or impossible for God. They are both miraculous and supernatural.
And, indeed, there is no need of this, in order to our partaking of it, since the Lord by his Spirit bestows upon us the blessing of being one with him in soul, body, and spirit. The bond of that connection, therefore, is the Spirit of Christ, who unites us to him, and is a kind of channel by which everything that Christ has and is, is derived to us. For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring, in a manner transfuses its substance into it, why should the radiance of the Spirit be less in conveying to us the communion of his flesh and blood?
Calvin's scenario is entirely possible, theoretically. The problem is that it denies the clear biblical warrant for eucharistic realism.
Wherefore the Scripture, when it speaks of our participation with Christ, refers its whole efficacy to the Spirit. Instead of many, one passage will suffice. Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans (Rom. 8:9-11), shows that the only way in which Christ dwells in us is by his Spirit. By this, however, he does not take away that communion of flesh and blood of which we now speak, but shows that it is owing to the Spirit alone that we possess Christ wholly, and have him abiding in us.
The indwelling itself is spiritual, and it is said that Jesus dwells inside of us, as well as the Holy Spirit, and indeed God the Father. But the same Scripture uses realistic language in describing the Body of Christ. Calvin himself alluded to this in passing not long before in his book. The clearest, most graphic example of that is in conjunction with St. Paul's conversion:
Acts 9:3-4 And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" [5] And he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;
Acts 22:7-8 And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, `Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' [8] And I answered, `Who are you, Lord?' And he said to me, `I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.'
Acts 26:14-15 And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, `Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.'
[15] And I said, `Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
Paul wasn't literally persecuting Jesus in the flesh. He was warring against the Body of Christ. Jesus assumes here that the "Body of Christ" or the Church is literally identified with Him, in some very real sense. It's the typically pungent, literal, graphic language and categories of the Bible. Paul was persecuting the Church:
Acts 9:1-2 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest [2] and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 22:4-5 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women, [5] as the high priest and the whole council of elders bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brethren, and I journeyed to Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.
Acts 26:10-11 I not only shut up many of the saints in prison, by authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. [11] And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Galatians 1:23 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; (cf. 1:23)
But Jesus told him that he was persecuting Him. This graphic one-to-one equation is seen elsewhere:
Ephesians 1:22-23 and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, [23] which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 5:23 . . . Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Ephesians 5:28-32 Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. [29] For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, [30] because we are members of his body. [31] "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." [32] This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
Paul also reiterates the equation of persecution of the Church being the same as persecuting Jesus Himself:
1 Timothy 1:12-13 I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service, [13] though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
Elsewhere we see in the Apostle Paul not only very strong eucharistic realism (1 Cor 10:16; 11:27-30) but also an identification with the very suffering of Christ, in a startlingly realistic manner:
Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, (cf. 2 Cor 4:10; Gal 6:17; Phil 3:10)
Calvin can't spiritualize away Paul's bodily sufferings, as if they weren't physical in nature. Likewise, he can't spiritualize away the Holy Eucharist. Scripture is consistently realistic in tone, tenor, and language with regard to all these matters.
What impiety?
speak more modestly, though they do nothing more than amuse themselves with more subtle delusions.
Quite a left-handed compliment . . .
They admit that Christ is not contained in the sacrament circumscriptively, or in a bodily manner, but they afterwards devise a method which they themselves do not understand, and cannot explain to others.
Sounds rather like Calvin's own discombobulated eucharistic theology.
It, however, comes to this, that Christ may be sought in what they call the species of bread. What? When they say that the substance of bread is converted into Christ, do they not attach him to the white colour, which is all they leave of it? But they say, that though contained in the sacrament, he still remains in heaven, and has no other presence there than that of abode.
On what grounds can Calvin or his followers argue that this is impossible? I don't see at all that it is impossible for God or prohibited by the Bible. Colossians 3:11 states that "Christ is all, and in all." The Bible refers to God being "in" physical things (including as a man, or "the angel of the Lord", in theophanies) even before the Incarnation:
Genesis 16:13 So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?"
Genesis 17:1, 22 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless." . . . [22] When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:1 And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
Exodus 3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, "The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me . . ."
Exodus 24:9-11 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi'hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, [10] and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. [11] And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
Numbers 12:7-8 Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house. [8] With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. . . .
Deuteronomy 34:10 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
1 Kings 22:19 And Micai'ah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; (cf. 2 Chron 18:18)
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that King Uzzi'ah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. (cf. 6:5)
Ezekiel 1:25-28 And there came a voice from above the firmament over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings. [26] And above the firmament over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it were of a human form. [27] And upward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were gleaming bronze, like the appearance of fire enclosed round about; and downward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. [28] Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Ezekiel 3:22-23 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, "Arise, go forth into the plain, and there I will speak with you." [23] So I arose and went forth into the plain; and, lo, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Daniel 7:9 As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire. (cf. 3:25; Rev 1:13-16)
Amos 9:1 I saw the LORD standing beside the altar . . .
Judges 13:9, 20-22 And God listened to the voice of Mano'ah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Mano'ah her husband was not with her. . . . [20] And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar while Mano'ah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. [21] The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Mano'ah and to his wife. Then Mano'ah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. [22] And Mano'ah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God." (cf. Joshua 5:13-15)
Genesis 32:24, 30 And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. . . . So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."
Exodus 3:2-6 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. [3] And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." [4] When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I." [5] Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." [6] And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. (cf. Acts 7:30-33)
Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them . . . by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night;
Exodus 14:24 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire . . . looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians,
Exodus 19:18 And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
Exodus 24:17 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.
Exodus 40:38 For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
Numbers 14:14 . . . O LORD, art seen face to face, and . . . thou goest before them, . . . . in a pillar of fire by night. (cf. Neh 9:12,19)
Deuteronomy 1:32-33 . . . the LORD your God, [33] who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, . . .
Deuteronomy 4:12 Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. (cf. 4:15)
Deuteronomy 5:4-5 The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, [5] while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, . . .
Deuteronomy 9:10 the words which the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, as at the first writing, the ten commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 18:16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, `Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'
Deuteronomy 33:16 . . . him that dwelt in the bush. . . .
Judges 13:20 . . . the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar . . .
Mark 12:26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? (cf. Lk 20:37)
Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, . . .
Exodus 14:24 . . . the LORD in the pillar . . . of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, . . .
Exodus 16:10 And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 24:15-16 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. [16] The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Exodus 33:9-11 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses. [10] And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the door of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, every man at his tent door. [11] Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent. . . . [14] And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Exodus 40:34-38 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. [35] And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. [36] Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward; [37] but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up. [38] For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, . . .
Leviticus 9:4-6 ". . . for today the LORD will appear to you." [5] And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. [6] And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded you to do; and the glory of the LORD will appear to you."
Leviticus 9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting; and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
Leviticus 16:2 and the LORD said to Moses, . . . "I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat."
Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him . . .
Numbers 14:10, 14 . . . Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. . . . [14] and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou, O LORD, art in the midst of this people; for thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers 16:19 Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.
Numbers 16:42 And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.
Numbers 20:6-7 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them, [7] and the LORD said to Moses,
Deuteronomy 1:32-33 Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God, [33] who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, . . . to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of . . . the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice . . .
Deuteronomy 31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent.
1 Kings 8:11 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. (cf. 2 Chron 5:14)
2 Chronicles 7:1-3 When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. [2] And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. [3] When all the children of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD upon the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the earth on the pavement, and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever."
Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud . . . (cf. Neh 9:12,19)
Isaiah 35:2 . . . They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God. (cf. 40:5)
Ezekiel 10:4, 18 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherubim to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the LORD. . . . Then the glory of the LORD went forth from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
Ezekiel 11:23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Ezekiel 43:2-6 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the east; and the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with his glory. [3] And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. [4] As the glory of the LORD entered the temple by the gate facing east, [5] the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple. [6] While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple; (cf. 44:4)
Luke 2:9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.
2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
Exodus 30:6 And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Leviticus 16:2 and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.
1 Samuel 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
2 Samuel 6:2 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
2 Kings 19:15 And Hezeki'ah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD the God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
1 Chronicles 13:6 And David and all Israel went up to Ba'alah, that is, to Kir'iath-je'arim which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim. (cf. 28:2)
Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
Isaiah 37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Yet Calvin would have us believe that it is implausible or unbiblical or impossible that God (after the Incarnation) could choose to be physically present in the consecrated elements? He simply cannot do so. It is a mere false tradition of men that would dogmatically assert such a thing without biblical justification. As I've just shown, the Bible has many indications of a local presence of God in physical things, even apart from the Incarnation. Now that God has taken on human flesh, it is not implausible that He can also choose to be present under the appearances of bread and wine, just as He did in pillars of cloud and fire and burning bushes. Why should one thing be actual and the other allegedly not even plausible or possible? Jesus told us "this is My body." He emphasizes this in very strong terms in the discourse of John 6. St. Paul reiterates it. Why does Calvin, then, doubt it?
Eucharistic presence is scarcely any essentially different than all these manifestations of His special presence. God was so present in the ark of the covenant, that Uzzah was killed instantly simply because he innocently touched it, to keep it from falling over (2 Sam 6:3-7; 1 Chron 13:7-10). Seventy men of Bethshemesh were slain because they (also seemingly innocently) looked into it (1 Sam 6:19). God was so present in the Holy of Holies (Ex 26:33; 1 Kings 6:19), that contained the ark of the covenant (Ex 26:34; 40:21; 1 Kings 8:6; 2 Chron 5:7), that the priests only went in there once a year, on the Day of Atonement, and anyone who did on any other day, or not according to the proper ceremony, might be killed (Lev 16:2, 13). The River Jordan stopped flowing when the ark was carried through it (Josh 3:8-17; 4:1-18).
Joshua even bowed before the ark of the covenant on his face in a worshipful posture (Josh 7:6), and Levite priests thanked and praised God before it (1 Chron 16:4), just as Catholics genuflect and bow before the Holy Eucharist, and adore the Lord therein. King David "offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD" next to the ark (2 Sam 6:17), which is a precursor of the Sacrifice of the Mass. King Solomon did the same (1 Kings 3:15; 2 Chron 5:6), and so did the Levites (1 Chron 16:1). Catholic practices are essentially nothing that hadn't been done nearly 3000 years ago. They are made far more meaningful, however, after the incarnation and crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But, whatever be the terms in which they attempt to make a gloss, the sum of all is, that that which was formerly bread, by consecration becomes Christ: so that Christ thereafter lies hid under the colour of bread.
That's correct; as the fathers taught.
This they are not ashamed distinctly to express.
Why should we be, since Jesus and Paul did?
For Lombard's words are, "The body of Christ, which is visible in itself, lurks and lies covered after the act of consecration under the species of bread" (Lombard. Sent. Lib. 4 Dist. 12). Thus the figure of the bread is nothing but a mask which conceals the view of the flesh from our eye. But there is no need of many conjectures to detect the snare which they intended to lay by these words, since the thing itself speaks clearly. It is easy to see how great is the superstition under which not only the vulgar but the leaders also, have laboured for many ages, and still labour, in Popish Churches.
If Calvin wishes to condemn the entirety of patristic eucharistic theology (and the explicit biblical rationale behind it), he is free to do so, but this also means that he can't pretend to be "reforming" the Church back to her former state in this regard, since there never was a time when the Church believed as he does regarding the Eucharist. He can't have his cake and eat it too (no pun intended). If he wants to oppose the massive, unarguable historical evidence of early Church beliefs on the Eucharist, then he can't at the same time maintain a pretense of supposedly going back to it and getting rid of "Romish" accretions and corruptions and inventions. He should honestly admit that his is no reform at all, but a novel revolution of thought.
Little solicitous as to true faith (by which alone we attain to the fellowship of Christ, and become one with him), provided they have his carnal presence, which they have fabricated without authority from the word, they think he is sufficiently present. Hence we see, that all which they have gained by their ingenious subtlety is to make bread to be regarded as God.
Calvin does the latter, as I alluded to above, since he makes the bread remain bread, yet wants to talk as if God is specially, mystically, spiritually present in it. So if anyone is confusing bread and God, it is Calvin. He is mixing the two in an odd, illogical manner. Lutherans, on the other hand, make it clear that both bread and God are present, and distinguish the two, while Catholics explicitly hold to a change in substance from bread to God. Therefore, neither Lutherans nor Catholics "make bread to be regarded as God." Calvin is doing that. We have plenty of biblical warrant. Calvin, however, has to change Scripture in order to believe as he does. Scripture isn't clear enough as it is. So it needs to be changed. Here, then, is the Revised Calvin Version (RCV) of the classic eucharistic texts:
Luke 22:19-20 (RCV) And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is represents my body which is given for you, as a sign and seal. Do this in remembrance of me." [20] And likewise the cup after supper, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you represents the new covenant in my blood, as a sign and seal."
1 Corinthians 10:16 (RCV) The cup of blessing which we bless, does it not represent and signify in a spiritual manner the blood of Christ, that we mystically participate in? The bread which we break, does it not represent and signify in a spiritual manner the body of Christ, that we mystically participate in?
1 Corinthians 11:27-29 (RCV) Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning what represents and signifies as a spiritual sign the body and blood of the Lord. [28] Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. [29] For any one who eats and drinks without discerning what represents and signifies as a spiritual sign the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.


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