A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §72

Communication of properties is reciprocal naming of either nature for the whole person, and is as real as the union

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Or even what they call the communication of properties — that is, of either nature's properties and workings in the one person where the natures are united, and that as a two-way exchange (κατὰ τρόπον ἀντιδόσεως).

By it the names, properties, and operations of either nature — say the divine — are truly and really said of the whole person, and that person is sometimes named from the humanity (John 3:13), and the other way round, as in Acts 20:28 and 1 Corinthians 2:8, examples ready in Holy Scripture.

That communication, on the account just given, is as real as the natures' union is real; though the speaking leans toward synecdoche, where what belongs to the part is given to the whole according to that part.

The theologians already named have set this out at length.

Latin

Vel etiam Communicationem (quam vocant) Idiomatum, idest, proprietatum & operationum alterutrius Naturae, in eadem Persona in qua Naturae unitae sunt, eamque reciprocam, κατὰ τρόπον ἀντιδόσεως: Qua scil. Nomina, Proprietates, & Operationes alterutrius Naturae, puta Divinae, praedicantur vere & realiter de tota Persona eaque nonnunquam ab Humanitate denominata, Joh. III. 13. & vicissim ut Act. XX. 28. 1. Cor. II. 8. obviis in Scriptura S. exemplis. Quae Communicatio (ex dictis modo) tam realis est, quam est realis Unio Naturarum; licet modo loquendi ad Synecdochen accedat, qua quod Partis est, tribuitur Toti, secundum illam Partem. Sed haec fuse dicti Theologi.

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Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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