2. Proof of the Second Conclusion

290. The proof of the second main conclusion is as follows, that the organ of sense is not in Christ’s body in the Eucharist in the way required for being affected by the object, because if it is to be affected by a body-object it must have a quantitative mode and be located in a place; likewise, Christ’s body as it is in the Eucharist does not have the object near it. For it is present here to a body as agent as if it were not present, because it is here as if, as far as concerns the idea of being affected by a body, it were nowhere; for every body requires a passive subject locally next to it. But Christ’s body is not here by location, but only the sacramental species is here in that way; nor is Christ’s body more present here to any body with the idea of being a passive subject than if an angel were here; therefore no sensation can be first in Christ’s body as it exists in the Eucharist.