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NASB | Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to His natural descent, came the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), He who is exalted and supreme over all, God blessed forever. Amen. |
Subject: God the Son as a confession of faith |
Bible Note: Leslie N, "when you say Jesus is God, then did God the Father die on the cross?. There is only 1 God" Death is defined as the separation of the body and soul. Our soul is an immortal spirit and as such cannot "die". in th same way Jesus suffered death in the separation of his body and soul. 624 "By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one".(Heb 2:9) In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only "die for our sins"(1 Cor 15:3) but should also "taste death", experience the condition of death, the separation of his soul from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb,(Cf. Jn 19:42) reveals God's great sabbath rest (Cf. Heb 4:7-9) after the fulfillment(Cf. Jn 19:30) of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.(Cf Col 1:18-20) "Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. The same person of the "Living One" can say, "I died, and behold I am alive for evermore":(Rev 1:18) God [the Son] did not impede death from separating his soul from his body according to the necessary order of nature, but has reunited them to one another in the Resurrection, so that he himself might be, in his person, the meeting point for death and life, by arresting in himself the decomposition of nature produced by death and so becoming the source of reunion for the separated parts.(St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech. 16: PG 45, 52D) Since the "Author of life" who was killed (Acts 3:15)is the same "living one [who has] risen",(Lk 24:5-6) the divine person of the Son of God necessarily continued to possess his human soul and body, separated from each other by death: By the fact that at Christ's death his soul was separated from his flesh, his one person is not itself divided into two persons; for the human body and soul of Christ have existed in the same way from the beginning of his earthly existence, in the divine person of the Word; and in death, although separated from each other, both remained with one and the same person of the Word.(St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 3, 27: PG 94, 1098A) "You will not let your Holy One see corruption" Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union which the person of the Son retained with his body, his was not a mortal corpse like others, for "it was not possible for death to hold him" (Acts 2:24) and therefore "divine power preserved Christ's body from corruption."(St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 51, 3) Both of these statements can be said of Christ: "He was cut off out of the land of the living",(Isa 53:8) and "My flesh will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption."(Acts 2:26-27; cf. Ps 16:9-10) Jesus' Resurrection "on the third day" was the sign of this, also because bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death.(Cf. 1 Cor 15:4; Lk 24:46; Mt 12:40; Jon 2:1; Hos 6:2; cf. Jn 11:39)" http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a4p3.htm Emmaus |