Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Was Christ the cause of his own Resurrection?

"in consequence of death[, which is the separation of soul from body and body from soul,] Christ's Godhead was not separated [(separata)] from His soul, nor from His flesh [(carne)]. Consequently, both the soul and the flesh of the dead Christ can be considered . . . in respect [(ratione)] of His Godhead. . . .  Therefore, according to the virtue of the Godhead united to it [(unitae divinitatis)], the body [(corpus)] took back again [(resumpsit)] the soul which it had laid aside [(deposuerat)], and the soul took back again the body which it had abandoned [(dimiserat): and thus Christ rose by His own power]."

     St. Thomas Aquinas, ST III.53.4.Resp., trans. FEDP.  Latin from Corpus Thomisticum, which follows the Leonine edition in considering "and thus Christ rose by His own power [(Et sie Christus propria virtute resurexit)]," present in PI, a later insertion.
     For the works of the Trinity ad extra are, of course, the works of the Word, the "one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ" of the Chalcedonian Creed, who is the sovereign hypostasis of the two natures.
     Cf. this one.
     resumpsit is iterum sumendi in the Vulgate of Jn 10:18.

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