Annotatio secunda Gregorii de Valentia societatis Iesu de controversia ubiquetaria

(...con-)"stantly remains, I must confess that the body of Christ is visible and invisible, circumscribed and uncircumscribed in one and the same place, since I teach that it is invisible everywhere and visible in heaven. But how does this consequence of the most learned Spanish Doctor square with his assertion, if the sense of his assertion in its first part is only that the body of Christ cannot be visible and invisible in one and the same place? For I," he says, "do not speak of one place, but of heaven and other places, when I teach that the body of Christ is visible in heaven, but invisible in all other places: nor can it ever be shown from my writings that I taught that the body of Christ is simultaneously visible and invisible, circumscribed and uncircumscribed in heaven."

Schmidelin is ignorant of the method of arguing from an absurd consequence.

There is, indeed, cause for him to be ashamed here of this hallucination of his, especially when he considers how petulantly he attacked the Spaniard here in a gladiator-like manner, while he himself was completely blind and exposed to all wounds. For we did not conclude that he is forced to confess that the body of Christ is visible and invisible in one and the same place as if we thought that one and the same thing is said if you say "the body of Christ is visible in heaven and invisible everywhere in all places" (which he teaches freely), and if you say "the body of Christ is visible and invisible in one and the same place." But we did so because this absurdity follows evidently from it. For we say that he is FORCED (even if he did not admit or teach it freely) to confess that even that absurdity follows from his doctrine. By this method, we show that that very Ubiquitarian doctrine which he gives freely—namely, that the body of Christ is visible in heaven and is also invisible in every place together with Christ's divinity—is absurd, since there follows from it that which is absurd and impossible: namely, that in one certain and same place, that is, in heaven, the body of Christ is simultaneously visible and invisible. For if the body of Christ, by that invisible Ubiquitarian mode, is there wherever the divinity is, it will also be in that mode in heaven, where the divinity is likewise; and...