Saturday, May 10, 2025

Leo XIV

"nobody fears the Lord without being among the members of this one man. He is many people yet one individual, many Christians but one Christ. All Christians, in union with their head who has ascended into heaven, form one Christ. It is not as though he were one and we many; no, we who are many are one in him, who is one. Christ, head and body together, is a single individual."

"nemo timet dominum, nisi qui est in membris ipsius hominis: et multi homines sunt, et unus homo est:  multi enim christiani, et unus Christus. ipsi christiani cum capite suo, quod adscendit in caelum, unus est Christus; non ille unus et nos multi, sed et nos multi in illo uno unum. unus ergo homo Christus, caput et corpus."

     St. Augustine, Exposition of Ps 127.3 (128.2 in NPNF?) as trans. Boulding, WSA III/20, p. 101.

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