Repetitio et Dilvcidior Explicatio Consensvs Veteris Orthodoxae Catholicaeque Christi Ecclesiae in doctrina prophetica & apostolica, de inconfusis proprietatibus naturarum Christi Domini, in vna indiuisa persona permanentibus adeoque de veritate carnis Christi ad dexteram Dei patris, in coelo sedentis & non ubique praesentis

EXPLANATION OF THE CONSENSUS. 7

the senses, the size itself, the circumscription of the body, the stature having its own measure, the form or figure, the members congruent to man, and also the composition of the members, visible and palpable. Indeed, as all these pertain to the property and truth of the body, if a human body were stripped or destitute of these, it could no longer be called a human body. For what kind of human body would you say it is that does not have its own circumscription or form? And what would be the distinction, or what the placement of members without dimension, and if I may say so, locality? Finally, how can that which has bodily dimension not be touched and seen? For these things pertain not to a defect or vice, but to the constitution, integrity, and preservation of the body: which even Adam, the first-formed of God and our first parent of all, had before he fell into sin.

Substantial properties

For there are, on the other hand, other conditions of infirmity, which can also be called accidental or accessory, which indeed were added to man or human nature after the transgression, and do not necessarily follow the substance, but can be separated from the nature or substance while it meanwhile remains intact: such are those which have the character of vice, guilt, and punishment. Of such a kind is the propensity to sin, and other things connected with this, namely death,
Accidental properties