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| Concerning the natural and innocent passions.
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Chapter
XX.—Concerning the natural and innocent
passions2203
.
We confess2204
| 2204 Cf. Greg.
Nyss., Contr. Apoll.; Leont., De Sect., Act. 10; Anastas.,
Hodegus, 13. &c. | ,then, that He
assumed all the natural and innocent passions of man. For He
assumed the whole man and all man’s attributes save sin.
For that is not natural, nor is it implanted in us by the Creator, but
arises voluntarily in our mode of life as the result of a further
implantation by the devil, though it cannot prevail over us by
force. For the natural and innocent passions are those which are
not in our power, but which have entered into the life of man owing to
the condemnation by reason of the transgression; such as hunger,
thirst, weariness, labour, the tears, the corruption, the shrinking
from death, the fear, the agony with the bloody sweat, the succour at
the hands of angels because of the weakness of the nature, and other
such like passions which belong by nature to every man.
All, then, He assumed that He might sanctify all.
He was tried and overcame in order that He might prepare victory for us
and give to nature power to overcome its antagonist, in order that
nature which was overcome of old might overcome its former conqueror by
the very weapons wherewith it had itself been overcome.
The wicked one2205
| 2205 Cf.
Athanas., De Salut.Adventu Christi. | , then, made
his assault from without, not by thoughts prompted inwardly, just as it
was with Adam. For it was not by inward thoughts, but by the
serpent that Adam was assailed. But the Lord repulsed the assault
and dispelled it like vapour, in order that the passions which assailed
him and were overcome might be easily subdued by us, and that the new
Adam should save the old.
Of a truth our
natural passions were in harmony with nature and above nature in
Christ. For they were stirred in Him after a natural manner when
He permitted the flesh to suffer what was proper to it: but they
were above nature because that which was natural did not in the Lord
assume command over the will. For no compulsion is contemplated
in Him but all is voluntary. For it was with His will that He
hungered and thirsted and feared and died. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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