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De Trinitate

IX.

[IX] Non dixit: ‚Ego et ipsi unum,‘ quamvis per id quod ecclesiae caput est et corpus eius ecclesia posset dicere: ‚Ego et ipsi‘ non unum sed ‚unus,‘ quia caput et corpus unus est Christus. Sed divinitatem suam consubstantialem patri ostendens (propter quod et alio loco dicit: Ego et pater unum sumus), in suo genere, hoc est in eiusdem naturae consubstantiali parilitate, vult esse suos unum sed in ipso quia in se ipsis non possent dissociati ab invicem per diversas voluntates et cupiditates et immunditiam peccatorum; unde mundantur per mediatorem ut sint in illo unum non tantum per eandem naturam qua omnes ex hominibus mortalibus aequales angelis fiunt sed etiam per eandem in eandem beatitudinem conspirantem concordissimam voluntatem in unum spiritum quodam modo caritatis igne conflatam. Ad hoc enim valet quod ait: Ut sint unum sicut et nos unum sumus, ut quemadmodum pater et filius non tantum aequalitate substantiae sed etiam voluntate unum sunt, ita et hi inter quos et deum mediator est filius non tantum per id quod eiusdem naturae sunt sed etiam per eandem dilectionis societatem unum sint. Deinde id ipsum quod mediator est per quem reconciliamur deo sic indicat: Ego, inquit, in eis et tu in me ut sint consummati in unum.

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

Chapter 9.--The Same Argument Continued.

He did not say, I and they are one thing; ¹ although, in that He is the head of the church which is His body, ² He might have said, and they are, not one thing, ³ but one person, ⁴ because the head and the body is one Christ; but in order to show His own Godhead consubstantial with the Father (for which reason He says in another place, "I and my Father are one" ⁵ ), in His own kind, that is, in the consubstantial parity of the same nature, He wills His own to be one, ⁶ but in Himself; since they could not be so in themselves, separated as they are one from another by divers pleasures and desires and uncleannesses of sin; whence they are cleansed through the Mediator, that they may be one ⁷ in Him, not only through the same nature in which all become from mortal men equal to the angels, but also through the same will most harmoniously conspiring to the same blessedness, and fused in some way by the fire of charity into one spirit. For to this His words come, "That they may be one, even as we are one;" namely, that as the Father and Son are one, not only in equality of substance, but also in will, so those also may be one, between whom and God the Son is mediator, not only in that they are of the same nature, but also through the same union of love. And then He goes on thus to intimate the truth itself, that He is the Mediator, through whom we are reconciled to God, by saying, "I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one." ⁸