CATALOGUE OF TESTIMONIES
                   Both of Scripture and Orthodox Antiquity


                                      VI.

 143] That now the divine nature powerfully manifests and actually exerts its
 majesty, power, and efficacy (which is and remains peculiar to the divine
 nature) in, with, and through the human nature personally united to it; which
 has such majesty because the entire fullness of the Godhead dwells personally
 in the assumed flesh and blood of Christ.

 144] Rom. 3,25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
 His blood.

 145] Rom. 5,9: Being now justified by His blood.

 146] Col. 1,20: Having made peace by the blood of His cross, by Him to
 reconcile all things to Himself.

 147] ATHANASIUS, Oration 4, Against the Arians (Epist. ad Adelp. c. Arian, t.
 1, p. 161, ed. Colon.): "Why should the body of the Lord not be worshiped when
 the Word, by stretching out His bodily hand, healed the one sick of a fever,
 and by uttering a human voice raised Lazarus, and by extending His hands upon
 the cross overthrew the prince of the air?"

 148] The same, Dialog 5, Of the Trinity (t. 2, op. f. 257): "God the Word,
 having been united to man, performs miracles, not apart from the human nature,
 but it has pleased Him to work His divine power through it and in it and with
 it."

 149] And shortly afterwards: "And according to His good pleasure He renders
 the humanity perfect above its own nature, and did not prevent its being a
 rational living being [creature, and a true human nature]."

 150] CYRIL, De Recta Fide ad Theodosium (t. 5, op.): "The soul, having
 obtained union with the Word, descended into hell; but, using its divine power
 and efficacy, it said to the fettered ones, Go forth."

 151] The same, lib. 1, Ad Reginas: "Christ as God quickens through His own
 flesh."


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