THEODORE BEZA

...confirmed to have been the property of the fathers. But do you really think that on this account we deny that, just as Christ was delivered for our offenses, so He was raised from the dead for our justification? Or do you imagine we consider His ascension above all heavens to be empty, where He continually intercedes for us, from where He attacks all our enemies, from where through the preaching of the word and the use of the Sacraments He sanctifies His Elect daily more and more, and from where we expect Him to come to complete the salvation of His own? Certainly, Christ would be useless to us outside the business of our redemption, that is, unless He had been made obedient to the Father for us even unto death, even the death of the cross. But for you, Hofmann (may the Lord forgive you), intent on this one thing, that you might curse us, though we are indeed undeserving, it is all the same: outside the business of our redemption and beyond the business of His passion. But if you had at least examined the second edition of this truly orthodox consensus from last year, you would have found this passage written in these very words: There is therefore no use of the corporal presence of the flesh of Christ, here on earth, outside the business of our redemption, that is, unless it is considered
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