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

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could be: which indeed was divine and not human.

But there is no reason why anyone should repudiate the communication of idioms or this method of interpreting forms of speech in the scriptures, which we have brought forward, as if it were a human invention. For it can be manifestly demonstrated in the apostolic writings. For when the holy Peter said that Christ suffered in the flesh, what, I pray, did he say other than that Christ, who is an undivided person, true God and man, suffered indeed, but in that nature in which he could suffer, namely according to the human, or as he himself says, according to the flesh or in the flesh. Again, the apostle Paul openly says that the Son of God was born of the seed of David. Where he immediately adds, according to the flesh, namely for that nature which could be born, and not for that which is ungenerable, the divine. Yet so that all might understand that the apostle acknowledges the same Christ to be true God, he adds, Who was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the spirit of sanctification. To all these is added that we have learned this method of interpreting and discerning the natures, subsisting in one undivided person, from Christ the Lord himself, who is read in the Gospel to have said to the Pharisees, What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? And when they said David’s, he responded to them, How then does David in the spirit call him Lord, saying,

The communication of idioms is taught in the scriptures.

1 Pet. 4.
Rom. 1.
Matt. 22.