Peter Melius Juhasz - Jehovah, three natures distinguished by three persons

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Petrus Carolinus (1543-1576) - Ferenc David - Peter Melius - Johann Sommer
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...ferenc-david-peter-melius-johann-sommer.1176/

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Trinitarianism versus Antitrinitarianism in the Hungarian Reformation (1944)
William Toth
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3160231?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior:02f1243b5cd2ad6492fa8c13394a1fe5&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
p. 255-268

Peter Melius Juhasz, a senior pastor of the Reformed church in Hungary, convened a synod at Debrecen in 1567 to forge a united front against Antitrinitarianism. The following year, King Janos II Zsigmond Szapolyai ...

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Peter Melius Juhasz
Péter Melius Juhász Juhasz - (1532-1572) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_Melius_Juhász

Péter Melius Juhász (1532 – 25 December 1572) was a Hungarian botanist, writer, theologist, and bishop of the Calvinist Reformed Church in Transylvania.[1] He famously debated with Ferenc David in a series of synods resulting in the Brief Confession of Pastors at Debrecen (1567), the Confession of Kassa (1568), and the Várad disputation (18 August 1568) - held at "Várad", modern Nagyvárad (Romanian Oradea), not Várad in Hungary. The "sententia catholica," was followed by a new confession, the Confession of Várad (1568).[2]

Gáspár Károli names Melius as one of the sources for his translation of the Hungarian Vizsoly Bible.

His herbal (Herbarium), published in 1578, was the first botanical and medicinal work in Hungarian language.
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Steven Avery

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RGA - p. 156
In fact, Biandrata even went so far as to suggest that it
was due to divine Providence itself that Erasmus had appeared on the scene, to
draw attention to the problematic status of the comma and to investigate the
issue of God’s unitary essence; Providence had likewise raised up men like
Servetus to continue Erasmus’ project.12 Biandrata raised the issue again in
another work, a refutation of the orthodox position of Péter Melius Juhász,
Calvinistically-inclined bishop of Debrecen. Whereas the “ministers of Christ”
(that is, the members of the ecclesia minor) maintained that “the one God, the
Father, Jehovah, is fount and wellspring of all essences, giving essence to all, the
one God from whom all things flow, lacking nothing, from whom all things have
their being and life,” Juhász argued that the God Jehovah is not merely the Father
or fount of essence, but a certain common essence or nature in which reside three
natures distinguished by three persons; these persons are in this essence, and the
essence contains the persons.13 In his discussion of these positions, Biandrata
repeats that the comma, one of the texts most heavily relied upon by Trinitarians,
is not to be found in the best codices; and that when Jesus says, “My Father and I
are one,” the word “one” is neuter rather than masculine, which likewise suggests
a unity of witness rather than of essence; Biandrata thus came to much the same
conclusion as Calvin and de Bèze, even though his basic attitude was quite
different.14

13 Biandrata, n. d., A2v: “MINISTRORVM CHRISTI. 3. Vnus ille Deus pater Iehouah est omnium
Essentiarum fons & origo, Essentians omnia, est enim ille vnus Deus ex quo omnia, Genesis 2.
Exodi 6. 1 Corinthiorum 8. Ephesiorum 4. nullius rei indigus, à quo omnia suum esse & vitam
habent, Genesis 17. Actorum 11. Romano. 11. PETRI MELII. Vnus ille Deus Iehouah nec est
Pater, nec est fons Essentiarum, sed est communis quædam Essentia, seu natura, in qua tres
resident personæ, quæ Essentia quidem distinguitur à personis, sed non est aliud ab ipsis
personis, cùm personæ sint in Essentia, & Essentia ipsa contineat personas, aut quod melius
est, Essentia & persona per conuersionem distinctas.”


BCEME - p. 97
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p. 98
The other schematic image, a ring set with three jewels, had been proposed by Melius, whom David and Biandrata debated in 1568.

Murdock, Graeme. ‘Multiconfessionalism in Transylvania.’ In A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World. Ed. Thomas Max Safley. Leiden: Brill, 2011: 393–416.
 
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