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| Concerning the Passion of our Lord's body, and the Impassibility of His divinity.
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Chapter XXVI.—Concerning the Passion of our
Lord’s body, and the Impassibility of His
divinity.
The Word of God then itself endured all in the flesh,
while His divine nature which alone was passionless remained void of
passion. For since the one Christ, Who is a compound of divinity
and humanity, and exists in divinity and humanity, truly suffered, that
part which is capable of passion suffered as it was natural it should,
but that part which was void of passion did not share in the
suffering. For the soul, indeed, since it is capable of passion
shares in the pain and suffering of a bodily cut, though it is not cut
itself but only the body: but the divine part which is void of
passion does not share in the suffering of the body.
Observe, further2232
, that we say that God suffered in the
flesh, but never that His divinity suffered in the flesh, or that God
suffered through the flesh. For if, when the sun is shining upon
a tree, the axe should cleave the tree, and, nevertheless, the sun
remains uncleft and void of passion, much more will the passionless
divinity of the Word, united in subsistence to the flesh, remain void
of passion when the body undergoes passion2233
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salut. adv. Christi. | . And should any one pour water
over flaming steel, it is that which naturally suffers by the water, I
mean, the fire, that is quenched, but the steel remains untouched (for
it is not the nature of steel to be destroyed by water): much
more, then, when the flesh suffered did His only passionless divinity
escape all passion although abiding inseparable from it. For one
must not take the examples too absolutely and strictly: indeed,
in the examples, one must consider both what is like and what is
unlike, otherwise it would not be an example. For, if they were
like in all respects they would be identities, and not examples, and
all the more so in dealing with divine matters. For one cannot
find an example that is like in all respects whether we are dealing
with theology or the dispensation.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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