Tertullian: the two natures

Monday, March 19, 2012
    Feast of Joseph of Nazareth
Meditation:
    He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
    —Romans 8:32 (NIV)
Quotation:
    You have Him exclaiming in the midst of His passion: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Either, then, the Son suffered, being “forsaken” by the Father, and the Father consequently suffered nothing, inasmuch as He forsook the Son; or else, if it was the Father who suffered, then to what God was it that He addressed His cry? But this was the voice of flesh and soul, that is to say, of man—not of the Word and Spirit, that is to say, not of God; and it was uttered so as to prove the impassibility of God, who “forsook” His Son, so far as He handed over His human substance to the suffering of death. This verity the apostle also perceived, when he writes to this effect: “If the Father spared not His own Son.”
    ... Tertullian (Quintus S. Florens Tertullianus) (160?-230?), Adversus Praxean, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, v. III, Alexander Roberts, ed., Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887, ch. xxx, p. 626 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have come in the flesh. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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