THAT THESE WORDS OF CHRIST, “THIS IS MY BODY,” ETC., STILL STAND FIRM AGAINST THE FANATICS 1527

Our pastor John Bugenhagen once challenged Zwingli in writing to prove that in the Supper “is” meant the same as “represent.” Would you believe it, when he ought to have answered him, Zwingli sang him instead a ditty about his great sufferings, and meanwhile inquired whether it meant this in other passages of Scripture, but found none! That it necessarily meant this in the Supper, however, he did not dare to suggest without exposing himself as a hopeless fool. -Martin Luther