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De la trinité

Livre IV

Mystère de l’Incarnation. — Comment le Verbe fait chair dissipe nos ténèbres, nous fait connaître la vérité, rend la vie à notre âme et à notre corps. — Digression sur le nombre six, qui, multiplié par quarante-six, exprime celui des jours que le Sauveur demeura dans le sein de sa mère. — Tous les fidèles ne forment en Jésus-Christ qu’un seul corps; comment Jésus-Christ leur a mérité la gloire éternelle. Au reste, quoique le Verbe ait été envoyé par le Père, et qu’il lui soit inférieur comme homme, il n’en reste pas moins, selon sa nature divine, égal, coéternel et consubstantiel à son Père. Il faut en dire autant du Saint-Esprit, qui est Dieu comme le Père et le Fils.

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The Fifteen Books of Aurelius Augustinus, Bishop of Hippo, on the Trinity

Book IV.

Explains for what the Son of God was sent, viz, that by Christ's dying for sinners, we were to be convinced how great is God's love for us, and also what manner of men we are whom He loved. That the Word came in the flesh, to the purpose also of enabling us to be so cleansed as to contemplate and cleave to God. That our double death was abolished by His death, being one and single. And hereupon is discussed, how the single of our Saviour harmonizes to salvation with our double; and the perfection is treated at length of the senary number, to which the ratio itself of single to double is reducible. That all are gathered together from many into one by the one Mediator of life, viz. Christ, through Whom alone is wrought the true cleansing of the soul. Further it is demonstrated that the Son of God, although made less by being sent, on account of the form of a servant which He took, is not therefore less than the Father according to the form of God, because He was sent by Himself: and that the same account is to be given of the sending of the Holy Spirit.