be used; the Son of man will judge, and, the For instance, we have said that He glorifies
Cuap. XIII. ] ON THE TRINITY. 33 the faith of men from Himself, and transferred it to the Father, by saying, '* Believeth not on me, but on Him that sent me,'' from whom nevertheless He certainly did not sepaquick and dead, without doubt the bad will not be able to see Him, except after the form in which He is the Son of man; but yet in the glory wherein He will judge, not in the lowliness wherein He was judged. But the ungodly without doubt will not see that form of God in which He is equal to the Father. For they are not pure in heart; and '' Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.' ® And that sight is face to face,' the very sight that is promised as the highest reward to the just, and which will then take place when He
- rate Himself; so also, when He says, "'It is not mine to give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared by my Father,"' it is I think plain in what relation both are to be taken. For that other also is of the same kind, ''I will not judge;'' whereas He Himself shall judge the quick and dead.* But because He will not do so by human power, therefore, reverting to the Godhead, He raises the hearts of men upwards; which to lift up, He Himself came down.
shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father;'' and in this ''kingdom"' He means the sight of His own form also to be understood, the whole creature being made subject to God, including that wherein the Son of God was made the Son of man. Because, according to this creature, ** The Son also Himself shall be subject unto Him, that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.''* Otherwise if the Son of God, judging in the form in which He is equal to the Father, shall appear when He judges to the ungodly also; what becomes of that which He promises, as some great thing, to him who loves Him, saying, 'And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him?''° Wherefore He will judge as the Son of man, yet not by human power, but by that whereby He is the Son of God; and on the other hand, He will judge as the Son of God, yet not appearing in that [unincarnate] form in which He is God equal to the Father, but in that [incarnate form]in which He is the Son of man."
CHAP. 13.—DIVERSE THINGS ARE SPOKEN CON-
CERNING THE SAME CHRIST, ON ACCOUNT OF THE DIVERSE NATURES OF THE ONE HYPOSTASIS [THEANTHROPIC PERSON]. WHY IT IS SAID THAT THE FATHER WILL NOT JUDGE, BUT HAS GIVEN JUDGMENT TO THE SON,
28. Yet unless the very same were the Son of man on account of the form of a servant which He took, who is the Son of God on account of the form of God in which He is; Paul the apostle would not say of the princes of this world, '** For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.''? For He was crucified after the form of a servant, and yet ''the Lord of glory '' was crucified. For that '' taking'' was such as to make God man, and man God. Yet what is said on account of what, and what according to what, the thoughtful, diligent, and pious reader discerns for himself, the Lord being his helper. For instance, we have said that He glorifies His own, as being God, and certainly then as being the Lord of glory; and yet the Lord of glory was crucified, because even God is rightly said to have been crucified, not after the power of the divinity, but after the weakness of the flesh:3 just as we say, that He judges as God, that is, by divine power, not by human; and yet the man Himself will judge, just as the Lord of glory was crucified: for so He expressly says, ** When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, and before Him shall be gathered all nations;''4 and the rest that is
29. Therefore both ways of speaking may be used; the Son of man will judge, and, the Son of man will not judge: since the Son of man will judge, that the text may be true which says, *' When the Son of man shall come, then before Him shall be gathered all nations;'' and the Son of man will not judge, that the text may be true which says, ''I will not judge him;''* and, '* I seek not mine own glory: there is One that seeketh and judgeth."'* For in respect to this, that in the | judgment, not the form of God, but the form 'of the Son of man will appear, the Father
Himself will not judge; for according to this
6 Matt. v. 8. Firs Corg Xi, (r2. 8 x Cor. xv. 24-28. 9 John xiv. 21.
foretold of the future judgment in that place even to the last sentence. And the Jews, inasmuch as they will be punished in that judgment for persisting in their wickedness, as it is elsewhere written, °"' shall look upon Him whom they have pierced.''' For whereas both good and bad shall see the Judge of the to [Augustin, in this discussion, sometimes employs the phrase 'Son of man'' to denote the human nature of Christ, in distinction from the divine. But in Scripture and in trinitarian theology generally, this phrase properly denotes the whole theanthropic ferson under a human title—just as '* man,"' (1 Tim. ii. 5),''last Adam"' (1 Cor. xv. 45), and ''second man'' (1 Cor. xv. 47), denote not the human nature, but the whole divine-human person under a human title. Strictly used, the phrase '' Son of man "' does not designate the difference between the divine and human natures in the theanthroos, but between the person of the wz-incarnate and that of the incarnate Logos. Augustin's meaning is. that the Son of God will judge men at the last day, not in his original '' formof God,'' but as this is united with human nature—as the Son of man.—W. G. Ts; 11 John xii. 47. 12 John vili. 50.
21 Cor. ii. 8. 3 2 Cor, xiii. 4. 5 Zech. xii. ro, 12 Tim. iv. 1. 4 Matt. xxv. 31, 32.