From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

"away with these mathematical novelties; I take my
stand on the almightiness of God."
"The power is not the point to be established,"
replied Zwingli, "but the fact that the body is in
divers places at the same moment." "That," said
Luther, "I have proved by the words 'This is my
body.'"
Zwingli reproached him with always falling
into the error of begging the question, and he
adduced a passage from Fulgentius, a Father of the
fifth century, to show that the Fathers held that the
body of Christ could be in only one place at a time.
"Hear his words," said Zwingli. 'The Son of God,'
says Fulgentius, 'took the attributes of true
humanity, and did not lose those of true divinity.
Born in time according to his mother, he lives in
eternity according to his divinity that he holds from
the Father; coming from man he is man, and
consequently in a place; proceeding from the
Father he is God, and consequently present in
every place. According to his human nature, he
was absent from heaven while he was upon the
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