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it was not a nature that took on a person, nor a person a person, but a person a nature.
Peter Lombard
The Sentences, Book 3, Dist 5, Chapter 1Other Quotes from the Author & Topic
The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanized God or a deified man, but a true God-man.
Incarnation0What a wonder that two natures infinitely distant should be more intimately united than anything in the world... That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity; that a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man;
Incarnation0A God of unmixed blessedness is linked personally with a man of...sorrows: life incapable to die, joined to a body in that economy incapable to live without dying first; infinite purity, and a reputed sinner; eternal blessedness with a cursed nature, Almightiness and weakness, omniscience and ignorance, immutability and changeableness, incomprehensibleness and comprehensibility; that which cannot be comprehended, and that which can be comprehended; that which is entirely independent, and that which is totally dependent; the Creator forming all things, and the creature made, met together to a personal union; "The word made flesh
Incarnation0if Jacob had been elected because of his future merits, then his election would no longer be from grace: and so he was not elected by God because of what he was going to become, but he became such because of his election.
The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 41Election0The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 41
yet they preach that our visible sun spreads its rays over all manner of offal, but keeps them clean and pure. Therefore, if pure things which are visible can be touched by visible things which are unclean and not share their pollution how much more did the unchangeable and invisible Truth, receiving a soul through the spirit and a body through the soul, take on the whole man without contamination to itself and free him from all infirmities?
De agone christiano, c18 n20Incarnation0De agone christiano, c18 n20
some things are sins and punishment of sin simultaneously, some are sins and the cause of sin, but others are sins and the cause and punishment of sin.
The Sentences, Book 2, Distinction 36, C1Sin0The Sentences, Book 2, Distinction 36, C1
she was formed not from just any part of his body, but from his side, so that it should be shown that she was created for the partnership of love, lest, if perhaps she had been made from his head, she should be perceived as set over man in domination; or if from his feet, as if subject to him in servitude
The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 18, Ch 2Creation0The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 18, Ch 2
Here [is stated] according to what reprobation is considered. Similarly, God's reprobation, by which he has reprobated some from eternity by not electing them, is considered according to two things, of which he foreknows one, but does not prepare it, that is, iniquity; the other he foreknows and prepares, namely eternal punishment.
The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 40Reprobation, Eternal Punishment0The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 40
Yea, to express the depth of His humility, He was made in the likeness of men. O how did Christ abase Himself in taking flesh! It was more humility in Christ to humble Himself to the womb than to the cross. It was not so much for flesh to suffer but for God to be made flesh—this was the wonder of humility.
Incarnation0The Son of God became the Son of man that we, the sons of men, might become the sons of God; and all this He did to save the nations.
Incarnation0the term faith is taken in three ways, namely for that by which one believes, and it is a virtue; also, for that by which one believers, and it is not a virtue; also, for that which is believed, which is different from that by which one believes.
The Sentences, Book 3, Dist 23, C3Faith0The Sentences, Book 3, Dist 23, C3
in that first state, he had the power to die and the power not to die; and this was the first immortality of the human body, namely the power not to die. But in his second state, after sin, he had the power to die and no power not to die, because in this state it is a necessity to die. In his third state, he shall have the power not to die and no power to die, because to that state pertains the impossibility of dying; this will be from grace, not from nature.
The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 19, Ch 1Death0The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 19, Ch 1
man was made in the image and likeness of God in respect to his mind, by which he excels irrational creatures; in his image, however, according to memory, intelligence, and love; in his likeness according to innocence and justice, which are naturally in the rational mind.
The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 16, Ch3Image of God0The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 16, Ch3
if it is asked for what is the rational creature created, answer: to praise God, to serve him, to enjoy him. By these things the creature profits, not God.
The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 1.Purpose0The Sentences, Book 2, Dist 1.
As God prepared some for punishment from eternity, so he prepared others for glory.
The Sentences Book 1, Dist 47Election, Punishment0The Sentences Book 1, Dist 47
Here is stated what the effect of predestination is. For the effect of predestination is that grace by which we are justified in the present and are assisted to live rightly and to persevere in the good, and also the grace by which we are blessed in the future.
The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 40Predestination0The Sentences, Book 1, Dist 40
He predestined those whom he elected, but he reprobated the rest, that is, he foreknew that they would sin to eternal death.
The Sentences, Book 1, Dist.39Election, Predestination, Reprobation0The Sentences, Book 1, Dist.39
As to the objection which they make from the Gospel (John 15:26), we respond as follows: Although in that text Truth says that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father, he does not add alone, and so he does not deny that the Spirit proceeds also from himself. But he names the Father alone, "because he usually refers to the Father even that which is his own," because he has it from the Father.
The Sentences, Book 1, D-XI, Ch1Filioque, Trinity, Greeks0The Sentences, Book 1, D-XI, Ch1
let us say that the Son was born from the Father before all time, and is forever being born from the Father, but, more fittingly, is forever born.
The Sentences, Book 1, D-IX, 8.Eternal Generation0The Sentences, Book 1, D-IX, 8.
In God knowledge and will are one and the same, as also are foreknowledge and predestination. Thus, although the nature and will of God are one, yet it is said that the Father generated the Son by nature, not by will, and that he is God by nature, not by will.
The Sentences, Vol 1, 40Generation, Trinity0The Sentences, Vol 1, 40
[Christ] offered himself on the altar of the cross not to the devil, but to the triune God, and he did so for all with regard to the sufficiency of the price, but only for the elect with regard to its efficacy, because he brought about salvation only for the predestined.
The Sentences, Book 3: On the Incarnation of the WordDefinite Atonement, Particular Redemption0The Sentences, Book 3: On the Incarnation of the Word
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