Tertullian: the scandal

Monday, September 5, 2011
Meditation:
    So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
    —1 Corinthians 15:42-44 (NIV)
Quotation:
    With us Christ is received in the person of Christ, because even in this manner is He our God. Whatever attributes therefore you require as worthy of God, must be found in the Father, who is invisible and unapproachable, and placid, and (so to speak) the God of the philosophers; whereas those qualities which you censure as unworthy must be supposed to be in the Son, who has been seen, and heard, and encountered, the Witness and Servant of the Father, uniting in Himself man and God, God in mighty deeds, in weak ones man, in order that He may give to man as much as He takes from God. What in your esteem is the entire disgrace of my God, is in fact the sacrament of man’s salvation.
    ... Tertullian (Quintus S. Florens Tertullianus) (160?-230?), from Adversus Marcionem, ii.27, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, v. III, Alexander Roberts, ed., Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887, p. 319 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Jesus, You are fully God and fully man. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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