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Against the Arians According to the Benedictine Text With an Accaantot nel. = . ete .
3 Wellton Bright
Athanasius
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According to the Benedictine Text With an Account of His Life by William Bright By Athanasius, St. and Bright, William
ISBN: 1-59752-222-8
Publication date 5/25/2005 Previously published by Oxford, UK, 1873
CO NILE Nos.
InrRopuction, on the Life of St. Athanasius.
P, i-xcyiii
ORATION I.
Necessity of exposing the true character of Arianism.
Reference to the ' Thalia' of Arius for its essential propositions.
The Catholic doctrine stated.
The question is, Whether our Lord be truly Son of God, and truly God, or not.
His Eternity proved by texts of Scripture, by His Divine Sonship, by the doctrine of the Trinity, and by His titles, as ' Wisdom,'
* Word,'
'Image.'
Arian "objections considered.
Analogy of human parentage, how far applicable.
The term 'Ingenerate' discussed.
Moral unalterableness of the Son as such.
Examination of the texts alleged by Arians:
Phil. ii. 9, 10; Ps. xlv. 7, 8; Heb. i. 4. These are shown to harmonize with Catholic doctrine.
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ORATION II.
Examination of texts resumed: Heb. iii. 2; Acts ii. 36.
Points in which the Son differs from all creatures as such.
The Arian theory, that He is a creature, created to create others, absurd.
Contrast between the respective relations of creatures and of the Son to the Father.
Scripture illustrations helpful up to a certain point.
The Sonship necessarily mysterious.
The one Word of God contrasted with other 'words,'
Argument from Baptismal form. Examination of Prov. viii. 22, LXX.; it is explained as referring to the Incarnation.
[Illustration of the point from Rom, viii. 29; Col. i. 15; Col. i. 18.
Consideration of the context of the passage in Proverbs.
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ORATION II.
Examination of John xiv. 10. Doctrine of Coinherence of the Father and the Son.
John xvii. 3, &c. contrast the Father not with the Son, but with false gods.
Texts on 'unity' of the Father and the Son, as John x. 30, xvii. 11, mean more than moral unity; for this belongs to all God's servants.
The unity of Father and Sen must be essential.
Another Arian explanation, comparing the unity of Father and Son to that of Christians with each other, refuted by the title of 'the Word,' Limited scope of human analogies.
Contents.
Texts affirming Christ's Manhood are unfairly used by Arians to deny His Godhead.
The Incarnation has a twofold aspect.
The Incarnate Christ has a Divine and a human sphere of action: 1 Pet. iv.1 serves as a keytext.
Texts, like Matt. xi. 27, as to the Son receiving from the Father refer not to Him as Word, but to Him as Man.
Texts, like Mark xiii. 32, as to limitations of His knowledge, and texts, like Matt. xxvi. 39, as to His fearing or being troubled, similarly explained.
Consideration of an Arian objection as to the Son being 'begotten by will.'
This is virtually the same as Saying that ' once He did not exist.'
The Son neither by necessity nor by will, but, as Son, 'the proper offspring of the Father's essence, and not external to Him,' the essential Will and Counsel of the Father.
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ORATION IV.
A series of notes, directed against a form of Sabellianism.
The ' Monarchia,' or Unity of Origin in the Godhead, is entirely consistent with, and indeed requires, the doctrine of a Personal Word or Son.
Texts ascribing human feelings to the Son refer to Him as Incarnate Mediator.
Some own Him as Son, but not as properly Word.
Others say that the » Word is not properly Son.
Such a text as John x. 30 supports the ' Homoousion.'
Against the Sabellianizing theory of a Word going forth after quiescence into action, and then returning into quiescence.
The Word identical with the Son.
Not true that 'the Man Jesus only is the Son,' or that 'the Word and Jesus are the Son,' or that 'the Word became Son when it was associated with Jesus.'
Sabellianism exhibited in its results.
Renewed argument for identity of the Word and the Son.
The Word, in the Incarnation, was not associated with a man, but became Man, continuing to be God.
Thus Jesus Christ is both God and Man..
P, 222 ERRATA.
P, 180, 1. 22, for Sapwoaréa read Yapocaréa.
P. 226, marg., for Col. iii, 1, read Eph. i. 20.
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