Sermon VI. On the Second and Third Reason by Which the Body of Christ Is Given as Food, Namely, on the Corruption and Condition of Human Nature

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### Sermo VI

### De secunda et tertia ratione qua datur corpus Christi in cibum, scilicet, de humanae naturae corruptione, et conditione

Venite, comedite panem meum. Prov. ix, 5. Et, Causam tuam, etc. Prov. xxv, 9.

II.

Secunda ratio sapientiae Dei qua Dominus dat homini corpus, scilicet, in cibum, est humanae naturae corruptio, quae hujus cibi exigebat medicamentum, et hoc quantum ad tria:

I. Quantum ad congruam curationis inchoationem.

II. Quantum ad integram corruptionis curationem.

III. Quantum ad firmam sanitatis conservationem.

I. Primo, humanae naturae corruptio exigebat talem cibum, quantum ad congruam curationis inchoationem, quia sicut initium corruptionis et mortis coepit a cibo a medico vel per medicum vetito, scilicet, a ligno scientiae boni et mali: sic initium justificationis et vitae incipere debuit a cibo per eumdem medicum persuadendo scilicet a vero ligno vitae, id est, a corpore Dominico.

De primo, Gen. ii, 17: De ligno scientiae boni et mali ne comedas: in quocumque enim die comederis ex eo, morte morieris.

De secundo, Joan. vi, 54: Nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis, et biberitis...

### Sermon VI

### On the Second and Third Reason by Which the Body of Christ Is Given as Food, Namely, on the Corruption and Condition of Human Nature

Come, eat my bread. Proverbs 9:5. And, Treat your cause, etc. Proverbs 25:9.

II.

The second reason of God's wisdom by which the Lord gives his body to man, namely as food, is the corruption of human nature, which required the medicine of this food, and this as to three things:

I. As to the fitting beginning of healing.

II. As to the complete healing of corruption.

III. As to the firm preservation of health.

I. First, the corruption of human nature required such a food as to the fitting beginning of healing, because just as the beginning of corruption and death began from a food forbidden by the physician or through the physician, namely from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so the beginning of justification and life ought to begin from a food persuaded by the same physician, namely from the true tree of life, that is, from the Lord's body.

Concerning the first, Genesis 2:17: Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat; for on whatever day you eat from it, you shall die by death.

Concerning the second, John 6:54: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink...