Annotatio secunda Gregorii de Valentia societatis Iesu de controversia ubiquetaria

...body, let him deny that he is in this world: but let him concede that he is here according to the presence of his Majesty. It is clear that "Majesty" is understood here by Augustine not of the flesh of Christ, but only of his divinity, as I also showed against the cavils of the Ubiquitarians in our defense of the Disputation against the two Sects.

Book against Felicianus, ch. 15.

Luke 23.

Nor, indeed, in this place only, but elsewhere as well, is the divinity of Christ itself customarily understood by Augustine under the name of Christ's Majesty. As when, explaining those words of Christ: "Today you will be with me in Paradise," he asks in this manner: "Whose voice, do we think, is this? Of Majesty, or of the mind, or of the body? But no one is ignorant that the body was in the sepulcher. It remains that this voice pertains to the Divinity or the mind."

Behold how Augustine, in that tripartite division, placed "Majesty" for "Divinity," which he does the same throughout the treatment of that passage, concluding in the end that what Christ said—that he would be with the thief in Paradise that day—should not be referred to the body, nor to the Deity properly, but primarily to the soul.

Page 8.

Matthew 18.

But elsewhere we have brought forward more testimonies of Augustine, and those very illustrious ones, against Ubiquity. And from the passage we have already cited, it is also understood what the meaning is of that promise of Christ, which he again adapts here to Ubiquity most ineptly: "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them." Namely, this must be understood according to his peculiar providence, according to his favor and ineffable and invisible grace, as the divine Augustine speaks. Nor if Christ were also present by the presence of his body to those who were gathered in his name, would it immediately follow from that that he is also present (as they wish) everywhere in all things.

Christ is absent from none more than the Ubiquitarians.

Indeed, it would not even follow from that that he is present to the Ubiquitarians themselves; for they are in reality gathered not in the name of Christ, but rather against the Lord and against his Christ. I would have even said "the Concordists," if I had had to take into account those whom the...