Q. Did Alcuin advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?
Alcuin, of York [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus], Abbot of Marmoutier Abbey (c. 735-804 A.D.):
But God did not leave those whom man abandoned; and the same Christ is both God and man. Therefore He departed by that which was human, and remained by that which was Divine; He departed by that which was in one place, and remained by that which was divine.
(J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1863], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus C, B.F. Albini Seu Alcuini, Exegetica. Comment. In Joan., Lib. VI, Cap. XXXV, Col. 939). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 215). Here
On John 6:
Whoso will live, let him believe in Christ, let him spiritually eat the spiritual food. …Anon He explains more diffusely what is the difference between spirit and flesh, and how to will to eat Christ carnally differs from receiving Him spiritually; for He says, It is the spirit which quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. …And now He says: 'The flesh profiteth nothing'; that is, if you wish to receive carnally what I say, the flesh profiteth nothing; if you understand My flesh is to be thus eaten as other food, as meat which is bought in the markets. It is the spirit, therefore, that quickeneth; by the spirit the flesh profiteth, which by itself profiteth not, because the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.
(J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1851], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus C, B.F. Albini Seu Alcuini, Exegetica. Comment. In Joan., Lib. III, Cap. XV, Col. 834, 837, 838). Here and Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 204). Here
~ Soli Deo Gloria
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