Disputationes tres (1583) - Page 8

things any longer whole and entire, but as forms having suffered something. Whence it happens that they subject themselves to the act or form of the one mixture, and are thus united and bound together by a certain common Act, and put on one and the same Form.

IX.

Just as at other times only those things act and are acted upon by each other which have the same Matter, so also these are said to be Mixables, whose nature is apt and suitable for acting and being acted upon in turn, and which admit of a foreign fusible boundary, and can be divided into small parts.

With these things thus established, we assign such a definition of Mixture according to Aristotle: μίξις τῶν μικτῶν ἀλλοιωθέντων ἕνωσις Mixture is the union of altered mixables.

THIRD DISPUTATION
on the personal Union of two
natures in Christ.

THESIS I.

Since the true and genuine definition and Reason of Natural Mixture, namely what and of what kind it is, has been asserted and approved from Aristotle himself in the preceding Theses, behold, it may be permitted to me, as to any Christian,