We only wish to point out that in our opinion the core of this controversy was the Lutheran inclination to elevate and overestimate the human nature in the unio personalis. That is what the Reformed justly contested, and when Barth, on the basis of his solution, wishes with the Lutherans to emphasize Christ’s real presence, then it may be pointed out that this is an element which the Reformed have always emphatically taught—so emphatically, indeed, that Gerhard derives an argument from it to defend
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