but certainly the consequences which followed from the union of this perfectly correct insight with the dogmas that already existed in Jewish theology, and which now gave rise to the great difficulty, the Gordian knot upon which most of the controversies of the Church turned, I do not undertake to defend, for even the Apostle Paul scarcely succeeded in doing so by means of his simile of the potter's vessels which he invented for the purpose, for the result he finally arrived at was nothing else than this: -
kontsekuentziak, ordea, ideia guztiz zuzen horiek fede-doktrina judutarrean aurrez aurkituriko dogmekin batzetik sortu direnak eta zailtasunik handiena, zeinak beti askaezina den korapilo gordiarra eragiten, eta zeinaren inguruan baitabiltza elizako eztabaida gehienak-ez dut neure gain hartzen aldeztea; izan ere, hori Paulo apostoluak berak ere oso nekez lortu baitzuen helburu horretarako ezarritako buztinlariaren konparazioarekin: zeren azkenean emaitza honako hau baizik ez bailitzateke izango: