THEODORI BEZÆ

But what, finally, is this? You say on page 8 that he testifies that he sees the bread is said to be the body of Christ tropikōs figuratively, but that he does not see in which word the trope lies. What fault is there here? A man of the most upright conscience confesses that, at the beginning, he could not distinguish for himself in which word the trope should most appropriately be placed. But who would wonder that he could not immediately behold the full light, having barely emerged from such a deep pit of darkness? Are you, Hofmann, unaware of how many things Luther himself hallucinated for quite some time, as he himself testifies? And I ask, are you endowed with such a happy genius that, having noticed an alien and inconvenient, or even a most false interpretation of some place, you immediately foresee what and where an emendation must be applied? And have you forgotten the blind man to whom the Lord restored sight, not in a single moment, but finally through certain stages?

What you later vomit forth against the same man, such that you sprinkle us with the same filth, calling the faith or doctrine which we profess lustful; because some of us have applied the trope now to this particle, now to that, and progressed to the point that you attribute to us what the prophets reproach in idolaters...