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Book IV.
Chapter
I.—Concerning what followed the
Resurrection.
After Christ was risen from the dead He laid aside
all His passions, I mean His corruption or hunger or thirst or sleep or
weariness or such like. For, although He did taste food after the
resurrection2252
, yet He did not
do so because it was a law of His nature (for He felt no hunger), but
in the way of economy, in order that He might convince us of the
reality of the resurrection, and that it was one and the same flesh
which suffered and rose again2253
| 2253 Theodor.,
Dial. 2; Greg. Naz., Orat. 49, Ep. 1 ad
Cled. | . But He
laid aside none of the divisions of His nature, neither body nor
spirit, but possesses both the body and the soul intelligent and
reasonable, volitional and energetic, and in this wise He sits at the
right hand of the Father, using His will both as God and as man in
behalf of our salvation, energising in His divine capacity to provide
for and maintain and govern all things, and remembering in His human
capacity the time He spent on earth, while all the time He both sees
and knows that He is adored by all rational creation. For His
Holy Spirit knows that He is one in substance with God the Word, and
shares as Spirit of God and not simply as Spirit the worship accorded
to Him. Moreover, His ascent from earth to heaven, and again, His
descent from heaven to earth, are manifestations of the energies of His
circumscribed body. For He shall so come again to you, saith
he, in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven2254
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