16th-century German Protestant theologian Johann Pistorius, in 1553, wrote that:
Lex
est sapientia Dei; Christus est sapientia Dei; ergo Christus est lex (English:
The Law is the Wisdom of God; Christ is the Wisdom of God; therefore, Christ is
the Law)
Source: "Johannes Pistorius
til Paul Noviomagus, Wittenberg, 27 June 1553," in A. Andersen, comp., Quattuor
Centuriae Epistolarum: Provst Johannes Pistorius' Brevsamling 1541-1605 (1614)
(Historisk Samfund for Sønderjylland, 1971), 50
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