Therefore, although in the Supper Christ gave his body when he said, ‘This is my body,’ it does not follow that if I repeat the same words, Christ’s body would immediately be present; for Christ nowhere commanded that his body should come into being out of my word.” Oh, this poor, miserable spirit! How he squirms and twists and still cannot get free! Let us take him up on the first point. He admits that Christ did give his body to the disciples in the Supper, for he acknowledges that these words,