Chapter 5 (59): Whether Christ Alone Is To Be Called Redeemer, As He Alone Is
Distinction XIX | 81 is entirely forgiven to the convert in baptism, so that no such punishment is exacted from the baptized. The same punishment is lessened in penance, for the punishment by which the Church binds the penitent would not suffice without the aid of Christ's pain, which he suffered for our sake." The sins of the just who lived before Christ's coming, according to the Apostle, were in the divine forbearance until Christ's death, for the manifestation of his justice in this age—See, it has been partially explained how and what Christ, by his death, merited and accomplished for us.
Chapter 5 (59)
WHETHER CHRIST ALONE IS TO BE CALLED REDEEMER, AS HE ALONE IS
CALLED MEDIATOR. And so he is truly called redeemer of the world and mediator of God and men. The Son alone is called mediator in Scripture.'
But at times the Father also or the Holy Spirit is called redeemer;" but this is so only by reference to the use of power, not as an example of humility and obedience. According to the use both of power and of obedience, the Son is properly called redeemer because he both fulfilled in himself those things by which we are justified, and worked that same justification by the power of the Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit. And so, he is redeemer insofar as he is God, by the use of power, insofar as he is man, by the effect of humility. And he is more frequently called redeemer according to his humanity, because according to it and in it he took up and fulfilled those sacraments which are the cause of our redemption. And so the Son is properly called redeemer.
Chapter 6 (60) 1. ON THE [TITLE] MEDIATOR. He alone is called mediator, and not the Father or the Holy Spirit. As the Apostle says of him: There is one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus,' that is, according to his humanity, he is, as it were, the arbiter placed in the middle for the making of peace, that is, to reconcile men with God. He is the arbiter whom Job awaits: Would that there were an arbiter between us.'
4CE PSG, 5.
3Rom. 3, 26.
'Gal >, 19-20; 1 Tim. 2, 5; Heb..9,.15.
Cf. Ps. 18, 15 and 77.35; Is. 41, 14; 49, 7 and 26; 60, 16; 63, 16.
PTs, 5:
Job 9, 33.