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through the serpent in heaven, on earth
and in paradise itself. Intercourse with
the unclean spirit rendered unclean the
heaven, the earth and the terrestrial paradise.
The heaven became unclean since
sin was found in God's angels, as Job
says. The serpent so contaminated and
polluted everything, the sun, the moon
and the stars that for the same reason that
we have to become ash, the heaven
himself, along with the sun, the moon
and the stars will have to be destroyed by
fire on the day of judgement."88
company of the unclean spirit, likewise the earth was
contaminated, the heaven because sin was found in
God's angels as it is written in Job four and 19.
The sun, the moon, the stars are contaminated
and obscured so much that they have to become dirt
like us and consumed by fire. Indeed, hell, death and all
diseases were introduced by him."89
In the process of the interpretation of rebirth the typically Servetian idea that the renovation in the
inner man is a simultaneously spiritual and physical process is leached out. With Dávid, on the contrary,
Sozzini's spiritual notion of +creating new" is dominant, but the effort to blend the ideas of the two
Antitrinitarian predecessors is clearly perceptible.
A similar tendency can be observed while attending to another problem. How has it become
necessary to be reborn for those who are in heaven since angels do not sin? -- Dávid asks on behalf of his
predictable opponents. The answer, in keeping with Lelio Sozzini, but also tangentially related to Servet,
is that while Adam's sin corrupted human nature, the fall of the first angels corrupted their nature. While,
however, Brevis explicatio only briefly mentions that the Scripture is silent about the creation and fall of
the angels, and says very little on their restoration, this silence was visibly problematic for the author of
Rövid útmutatás, who visibly found it difficult to accept this silence and also the fact that this doctrine is
hard to grasp: +If we do not understand how the angels were reconciled with God, we cannot know either
when and how the angels were created and fell, thus it is no wonder we know so little about their
reconciliation and that Christ being their head since the Scripture makes but brief mention of it. The
conditions of man are rather and more openly explained and, therefore, its structure is also given more
clearly in the Scripture because it is more useful and more necessary for us to know these than the
structure and reconciliation of the heavens."90 We shall see later how Dávid's job during the later debates
was made harder by the silence of the Scripture. On the other hand, the fact that Sozzini's treatise still
emphasized, though without elaborating in detail, the necessity of the renovation of the angels meant for
Dávid a point of connection between the ideas of Brevis explicatio and Servet's theory.
Following the order of the said contrasting pairs, the work barely mentions the two births, the two
educations and two lives, and says a little more about the two kinds of death. This part is especially interesting
because if earlier the work relied on Servet to the extent of a sentence or an expression, now this
train of thought in its entirety comes from Restitutio. The way it is utilized is again rather arbitrary here.
The problem is discussed by Servet not for its own sake but the first book of De regeneratione superna
addresses the question whether unbaptized children will be damned. A denial of this leads to the
discussion of the consequences of Adam's sin and of the possibilities of man, the difference between the
two deaths being explicated several times in the process. Dávid uses approximately a page length text of
that long chapter, strictly omitting the comments referring to the basic idea of the chapter, doubtlessly
obscuring thereby also the Servetian genesis of the passage. The following quotation, however, not only
justifies that but allows an insight into the methods of the Hungarian Antitrinitarian as well.
+So that we can show the whole +The first and the second death were both the
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