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    • The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves Christs.
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    Chapter VIII.—The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves Christs.

    Let us then go over the ground again from the beginning, until we come in course to the end, explaining what we have said. Consider if the passage seems to you to be explained to your mind. For I think that the Church is here said to give birth to a male; since the enlightened2725

    2725 The baptized.

    receive the features, and the image, and the manliness of Christ, the likeness of the form of the Word being stamped upon them, and begotten in them by a true knowledge and faith, so that in each one Christ is spiritually born. And, therefore, the Church swells and travails in birth until Christ is formed in us,2726

    2726 Gal. iv. 19.

    so that each of the saints, by partaking of Christ, has been born a Christ. According to which meaning it is said in a certain scripture,2727

    2727 Ps. cv. 15.

    “Touch not mine anointed,2728

    2728 χριστῶν.

    and do my prophets no harm,” as though those who were baptized into Christ had been made Christs2729

    2729 Anointed.

    by communication of the Spirit, the Church contributing here their clearness and transformation into the image of the Word. And Paul confirms this, teaching it plainly, where he says:2730

    2730 Eph. iii. 14–17.

    “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” For it is necessary that the word of truth should be imprinted and stamped upon the souls of the regenerate.

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