invisible one be seen, and the one co-etemal with the Father be bom in time,
154 SAINT A UGUSTINE - SERMONS he answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Then he added, Therefore the holy one to be born of you shall be called the Son of God (Lk 1:34-35). He didn't say, "The one to be bom of you shall be called the Son of the Holy Spirit. " The point is, the whole man, that is, rational soul and body, was assumed by the Word, so that the one Christ, the one Son of God, might be not only Word, but Word and man; and this whole, this totality, is the Son of God the Father because of the Word, and the Son of man because of the man. In that he is the Word he is equal to the Father; in that he is man the Father is the greater.15 And together with the man he is the Son of God, but because of the Word, by whom the man was assumed; and together with the Word he is the Son of man, but because of the man who was assumed by the Word.
It is because of his holy conception in the virgin's womb, brought about not by the burning lust of the flesh but by the glowing charity of faith, that it says born of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, the first mentioned as sanctifying, not as begetting; the second as conceiving and giving birth. Therefore, he said, the holy one to be born of you shall be called the Son of God. Because holy, that's why of the Holy Spirit', because to be born of you, that's why of the virgin Mary}6
Crucified under Pontius Pilate and buried
7. It was necessary though, that in the man assumed not only should the invisible one be seen, and the one co-etemal with the Father be bom in time, but also that the untouchable one should be seized, the unconquerable one be hung on the tree, the inviolable one fixed there with nails, and that life and immortality should die on the cross, be buried in the tomb; all this the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. From this it follows that we must believe with the heart unto justice and confess with the mouth unto salvation,17 that this same only-begotten Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, not only was bom a human being of a human being, but also suffered the human lot right up to death and burial.
For since the only Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, Word and man, or to put it more explicitly, Word, soul and flesh, is a single whole, to this whole is referred that in soul alone was he sorrowful unto death,18 because it was the only Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was sorrowful; to this whole is referred that only as man was he crucified, since it was the only Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was crucified; to this whole is referred that only in the flesh was he buried, since it was the only Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ who was buried. From the moment, you see, that we have begun to say that we believe in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, from that moment with reference to anything else we say about him we understand "Jesus Christ the only Son of God our Lord."
Nor should this surprise you; I mean, we say that the only Son of God Jesus Christ our Lord was buried, though only his flesh was buried, in the same way as, for example, we say that the apostle Peter today lies in his tomb, though we