Ambrose: source notes

Works: Letter to Irenaeus (as quoted in Apology IV.103). Edition/translation: Quoted in Apology of the Augsburg Confession IV.103–104 (Triglot English, bookofconcord.org). Ambrose’s own text: CSEL 82 (letter number to verify).

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S1: Letter to Irenaeus, as cited in Apology IV.103

• Source: https://bookofconcord.org/defense/
• Text: “…by the works of the Law, no one is justified … And on this account let no one boast of works, because no one is justified by his deeds. But he who is righteous has it given him because he was justified after the laver [of Baptism]. Faith, therefore, is that which frees through the blood of Christ, because he is blessed ‘whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered,’ Ps. 32:1”
• Context: The Apology quotes the passage with its baptismal clause. That counts toward an honest citation, but the wording has not been checked against Ambrose’s text.
• Bears on: Q2, Q4
• Status: secondary-attested (via 16th-c. quotation)

Topic: eucharist

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EUC S1: On the Mysteries 9.50–52

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3405.htm
• Text: “Let us prove that this is not what nature made, but what the blessing consecrated, and the power of blessing is greater than that of nature, because by blessing nature itself is changed.”
• Context: Uses OT changes of nature (Moses’ rod) as analogies for the change of the elements.
• Bears on: E1, E3
• Status: verified (English)