LUTHER 1527 The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.

LUTHER 1527


Now do you demand Scripture from us, dear fanatics? Here it is: “Take, eat, this is my body.” Torment yourselves for now with this text; later you shall have more. Oh, how sure you were, not thinking that you could ever be challenged or confronted with this saying! For you had not only crucified it but also buried it and set guards around the grave so that it was utterly impotent. But now it has risen from the dead and will die no more, and casts you, its enemies, under its feet and makes you its footstool.(Allusions to Matt. 27:66, Rom. 6:9, Ps. 110:1, all of which also figured exegetically in the controversy.)
The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.

Arius, a presbyter of the same city after 313, who is represented as a tall, thin, learned, adroit, austere, and fascinating man, but proud, artful, restless, and disputatious, pressed and overstated the Origenistic view of the subordination, accused Alexander of Sabellianism, and taught that Christ, while he was indeed the creator of the world, was himself a creature of God, therefore not truly divine.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
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