in opposition to humilitate, and so has the apostle relying both on God's humility and his majesty.
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3. For example, by calming the storm, casting out demons, and so on. 4. Emending divina celsitudine to divinae celsitudinis. The reading of the text puts celsitudine in opposition to humilitate, and so has the apostle relying both on God's humility and his majesty. My emendation puts celsitudinis in apposition to Dei, and simply has him giving two names to God.
5. Superficially a good knock-down argument against the kind of persons he was dealing with, who would have had in common with him a Neoplatonist, dualist intellectual background. But the language, treating "spirit'' as meaning quite simply non-material being, and thus including "soul" under spirit as well as God, is totally unbiblical and foreign, for example, to Paul, for whom "soul" is more readily identified with "flesh," and together with "flesh" is always starkly contrasted with "spirit."
And in any case, the inference that God becoming man, the incarnation of the Word, was some¬ thing less wonderful than you or me becoming you or me, seems hardly acceptable to a Christian understanding of things.
6. See Gal 6:14. 7. Either when we were confirmed, being "sealed" with chrism in the sign of the cross; or when as catechumens enrolling for baptism at the beginning of Lent, we were signed with the sign of the cross; or finally when we crossed ourselves on entering the church.
8. In his first sentence he called Christ's passion two things: a guarantee of glory and a lesson in patience. He has so far, he thinks, been confining himself to the first, and so has little time left for the second. By the first he has, it seems, really meant "an occasion for boasting," something to be proud of, rather than a guarantee of future glory in the kingdom.
9. That is, pride comes before a fall.
10. See Rom 12:16.