The below is a citation out of Gillespie (English Popish Ceremonies). It surely seems to be a quotation from a philosopher, maybe Aquinas or Scotus? Any thoughts, suggestions what or where it is from? I've found the phrase beginning "quod est" rather than "quickquid est," and also Scotus has a phrase "qua res [FONT="] dum est, non potest non esse." So far I have not found something close in Aquinas.[/FONT]
[FONT="]To us it seems very strange how a man, when he is actually a banqueter, and at the instant of his communicating can be made in any other sort a banqueter than he is; for quicquid est, dum est, non potest non esse.[FONT="][1][/FONT] Wherefore if a man in the instant of his receiving is an unworthy banqueter, he cannot at that instant be made any other than he is.[/FONT]
[FONT="][1][/FONT] [whatever is, while it is, cannot not be.]