Disputation of Dr. Martin Luther against Schwenkfeld

I.

Argument:  A human person is one thing, a divine person another.  But in

Christ there are both divinity and humanity.  Therefore there are two persons

in Christ.

Response:  This is the fallacy of composition and division.  In the major

premise you divide the human nature and the divine; in the minor premise you

join them.  This is a philosophical solution; but we are speaking

theologically.  I deny the consequence, for this reason, that in Christ the

humanity and the divinity constitute one person.  But these two natures are

distinct in theology, with respect, that is, to the natures, but not with

respect to [secundum] the person.  For then they are undivided

[indistinctae], but two distinct natures, yet belonging to an undivided

person [indistinctae personae].  There are not two distinct persons, but what

is distinct is undivided [sed sunt distinctae indistinctae], that is, there

are distinct natures, but an undivided person.