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Grynaeus, Johann Jakob · 1587

If you attribute to him an invisible, illocal Body, and then divide the Person of the God-man original: τὸ θεάνθρωπον with Nestorius, by imagining that the Word original: λόγον is not present to the assumed Nature in any way other than that by which it is present to Peter or Paul or other creatures; and then confuse the Natures with Eutyches, so that you attribute to the Flesh the essential properties of the Deity—you are, as it appears, little mindful of that which Athanasius most truly said: "That which is everywhere is consubstantial with God" original: τὸ πανταχοῦ ἐσιμ ὁμοόσιον τῷ θεῷ.
Let us, since we must reverently acquiesce in God's just judgment—in which he delivers some to a reprobate mind, while illuminating others—give thanks to God for the revealed light of the sincere Gospel. Let us make it our study to rekindle original: ἀναζωπυρεῖν the gift of God that is in us. Nor let us be like those who do not want to be seen to have ever erred, and who fill their ears with the Stentorian clamors of those infatuated by them, just as they say the babbler Rabula did; who, when he saw that he had failed in the bad cause he had undertaken to defend, was asked: "Why do you shout so?" He replied: "Because I find that I am accomplishing nothing."
Let us not be ashamed to say with the Apostle: "For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another" (Titus 3:3). Rather, let us congratulate ourselves that we have been called back to the way of truth, and let us constantly and sincerely profess and defend it. Moreover, let us pray for the Adversaries, among whom there are undoubtedly some who are not unrepentant original: ἀμετανόητοι, that the Lord JESUS may also deign to [anoint them] with the unction