A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §76 · Samuel Strimesius

First falsehoods of the Ubiquitarians: without infinite flesh the hypostatic union supposedly dissolves

Those theologians commonly called Ubiquitarians had many first falsehoods. The harsher among them — and their chiefs — were the Swabians.

One sample: they say the hypostatic union of the natures dissolves unless the human nature is stretched to match the divine — equally infinite, equally omnipresent, and so on.

Turn the charge around and it is ready: the marvel of ubiquity is what cancels that personal union.

On that path they collapsed two phrases into one: "the whole Christ," said of the person and of the subject-which (subjectum quod), and "the whole of Christ," said of the united natures or the subject-by-which (subjectum quo).

Latin

Πρῶτα ψεύδη eorum Theologorum qui vulgo Ubiquitarii, & quorum duriores sed & principes Suevi, fuere plurima. Ex. gr. solvi Unionem Hypostaticam Naturarum, si Humana Divinae non sit commensurata, aeque infinita, omnipraesens, &c. Retorsione in promptu; tolli eam Personalem Unionem portento Ubiquitatis: Sic supposuere, Totum Christum, quod dictum de Persona, & subjecto quod, ac Totum Christi, quod de Naturis unitis, vel subjecto quo, unum & idem esse.

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