Saturday, December 31, 2016

De Domino 17, 49-50 - Concerning the Lord

Concerning the Lord & Concerning the Holy Spirit (De Domino) 
De Domino 17, 49-50

Through temptations man becomes spiritual
and is conjoined to heaven.
But the Lord through temptations
conjoined His Human to the Divine Itself
which was in Him,
and so He became God as to the Human.

He was united to His Divine by successive steps . . .
and He was united [to it]
through temptations and victories.
Full unition was accomplished by the passion of the cross.

So far as He was united,
so far He spoke with Himself;
but so far as He was not yet united,
so far He spoke as with another.
The latter was His state of humiliation,
but the former the state of glorification. 




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