human dispensation, .having both been thus systematically dis-
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WILL COME FROM THENCE, AND WILL JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD : whether by these terms are signified the rigliteous and sinners, or whether it be the case that those persons are here called the quick, whom at that period He shall find, previous to [their] death,^ upon the earth, while the dead denote those who shall rise again at His advent. This temporal dispensation not only is, us holds good of that generation which respects His being God, but also hatJi Iccn and shall he. For our Lord hath been upon the earth, and at present He is in heaven^ and [hereafter] He shall he in His brightness as the Judge of the quick and the dead. 'For He shall yet come, even so as lie has ascended, according to the authority which is contained in the Acts of the Apostles.^ It is in accordance with this temporal dispensation, therefore, that He speaks in the Apocalypse, where it is written in this wise : " These things s.aitli He, who is, and who was, and who is to come."^
Chap. ix.—Of the Holy Spirit cuid the mystei-y ^of the Trinity.
16. The divine generation, therefore, of our Lord, and His human dispensation, .having both been thus systematically disposed and commended to faith,^ there is added to our Confession, with a view to the perfecting of the faith which we have regarding God, [the doctrine of] the Holy Spirit, who is not of a nature inferior^ to the Father und the Son, but, so to say, consubstantial and coetenial : for this Trinity is one
God, not to the effect that the Father is the same [Person] as the Son and the Holy Spirit, but to the effect that the Father is the Father, and the Son is tlie Son, and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit ; and this Trinity is one God, according as it is written, " Hear, Israel, the Lord your God is one
The text gives simply ante mortem. Some editions insert nostram = previous to our death.
2 Acts i. 11. ^ Rev. i. S.
Instead oifideique commendata et divina generatione, etc., another, but weaklysupported, version is, Jide atque commendata divina, etc. , which makes the sense
The faith, therefore, having l)cen systematically disjjosed, and our Lord's divine generation and human dispensation having been commended to the understanding, etc.
8 Non minore natiira quam Pater. The Benedictine editors suggest minor for minore = not inferior in nature, etc.