Chapter 5 (21): He Brings Forth Authorities By Which This View Is Strengthened.
Distinction VI | 29 Chapter 5 (21)
HE BRINGS FORTH AUTHORITIES BY WHICH THIS VIEW IS STRENGTHENED.
Lest they appear to be expressing merely their own view, they also confirm what they say by the submission of authorities. For Augustine says, in the book On the Grace of the New Testament: "Just as the number of persons is not increased when flesh is joined to soul so that there be one man, so the number of persons is not increased when the man is joined to the Word so that there be one Christ. And so we read 'God man' in order to understand the singularity of this person, not to suspect a divinity changed into flesh."!
Chapter 6 (22) 1. FOUR KINDS OF HABIT ARE DISTINGUISHED. The same [Augustine], treating that statement of the Apostle: He was found in the habit of a man,' manifestly shows that God is said to have been made man or to be man according to habit; in the book of 84 Questions, he says as follows: "We say 'habit' in many senses: a habit of the mind, as the mental grasp of a discipline established by usage; or a habit of the body, as when we say that one is more vigorous than another; or the habit of those things which are externally fitted to our limbs, as when we say that someone is clothed, shod, and suchlike. In all these kinds, it is manifest that habit is said with reference to a thing which is added to someone, so that he may also not have it. And this term is derived from the verb 'to have.' And so habit is said with reference to a thing which is added to us so that we may have it.""
2. FIRST KIND OF HABIT. "And yet what matters here is that some of those things which are added in order to produce a habit are not themselves changed, but they cause change while they remain whole and unassailable in themselves: and so wisdom, coming to a man, is not itself changed, but changes the man and, from a fool, makes him into a wise man."*—SECOND. "But some things are added so that they both change and are changed: like food which, losing its form, is changed into the body, and we, refreshed by the food, are changed from weakness and languor to strength and power.'*—THIRD. "A third kind concerns those things which, on being added, neither change the things to which they are added, nor are they changed by them: like a ring placed on a finger; but this kind occurs very rarely."°—FOuURTH. "A fourth kind is when those
'Augustine, Epistola 140 (ad Honoratum), c4 n12.
Pil) 2, 7:
*Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus 83, q73 n1.
*Tbid.
"Ibid.
°Cf. ibid.