The Corynthyans had knoweleage that all meates were indyfferent, and whether it were offered to an Idoll or not, that the meate was not the worse, ād that they myght laufullye eate of it, whether it were solde them in the shambles or sette before them when they dyned or souped in an vnfaythfull mannes house, askynge no questyons: excepte some man ded tell thē that it was offerred to an Idoll, and then they shulde not eate of it for offendynge hys conscyence that so tolde them (albeyt they were els free and the thynge indyfferente) thys knoweledge because it was not annexed wyth charyte, was the occasyon of greate offendynge. For by reason therof they sate downe amonge the Gentyles at their Feastes, where they ded eate in the honoure of their Idolles, and so ded not onelye wounde the conscyēce of their weake bretherne, but also cōmytted Idolatrye in dede. And therfore S. Paule sayde vnto them. My deare beloued flee from worshyppynge of Idolles. I speake vnto them whiche haue dyscrecyon. Iudge ye what I saye. Is not the cuppe of blessynge which we blesse the felowshyppe of the bloode of Christe? Is not the breade which we breake the felowshyppe of the bodye of Christe? For we though we be manye are yet one breade and one bodye, in as moche as we are partakers of one breade. Christ ded call hym selfe bread ād the breade hys bodye. And there Paule calleth vs breade and the breade our bodye. Now maye you not take Paule that he in this place shulde dyrectelye expounde Christes mynde. And that the verye exposycyō of Christes wordes, whē he sayde, thys is my bodye, shulde be that it was the felowshyppe of his bodye, as some saye, whiche seakynge the keye in thys place of Paule, locke them selfes so faste in, that they can fynde no waye out. For Christe spake those wordes of hys owne bodye which shulde be geuē for vs, but the felowshyppe of Christes bodye (or congregacyon) was not geuen for vs. And so he mente not as Paule here sayeth, but mēte hys owne bodye. For as Paule calleth the breade our bodye for a certayne propertye, euen so doth Christe call it hys bodye for certayne other propertyes. In that the breade was brokē, it was Christes owne bodye, sygnyfyēge that as that breade was broken, so shulde hys bodye be brokē for vs. In that it was dystrybuted vnto hys dyscyples, it was hys owne bodye, sygnyfyēge that as verelye as that breade was destrybuted vnto them, so verelye shulde the death of hys bodye, and frute of hys passyon be dystrybuted to all faythfull folke. In that the breade strengtheneth our bodyes, it is hys owne bodye, sygnyfyenge that as our bodyes are strengthened and conforted by breade, so are our soules by the fayth in hys bodye brekynge. And lykewyse of the wyne in that it was so dystrybuted, conforteth vs and maketh vs merye. Furthermore, the breade and wyne haue a nother propertye, for the whiche it is called our bodye. For in that the breade is made one breade