Sacraments of the Christian Faith by Hugh of St. Victor

Author:Hugh of St. Victor
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781936392704
Publisher: Revelation Insight
Published: 2016-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

§12. That through man united with the Word all who are His members are united with God.

The Apostle says: A mediator is not of one: but God is one. [247] For God and man were two, diverse and adverse. God was just; man was unjust; in this note them adverse. Man was wretched, God blessed; in this note them diverse. Thus then man was adverse to God through injustice and diverse from God through wretchedness. For this reason, man held it as necessary that first he be justified from fault in order to be reconciled, afterwards that he be liberated from wretchedness in order to be reformed. In this, therefore, man needed a mediator before God in order to be reconciled to Him and be led back to Him; but He who was not by any friendship of society and of peace related to both, could not take up the pleading of the cause of dissenters. On this account then the Son of God was made man, so that between man and God He might be a mediator of reconciliation and of peace. He took on humanity through which He might approach men. He retained divinity through which He might not withdraw from God. Being made man, He sustained punishment that He might show affection; He preserved justice that He might confer the remedy. The Word indeed, which was one with God the Father through ineffable unity, was made one with the assumed man through a wonderful union. Unity in nature, union in person. With God the Father one in nature, not in person; with assumed man, one in person, not in nature. What is more one than unity? What is one by unity is one to the highest degree. The Word and the Father were one in unity, since they were one in nature, and the Word Himself wished to become one with us to make us one in Himself and through Himself and with Him with whom He himself was one.

Therefore, He assumed our nature from us that He might associate it, which had not been associated through unity in nature, to Himself through union in person; thus then through that indeed which He had made one with Himself from our own He might unite us to Himself, that we might be one with Him

through that which as our own had been united to Him and through Him himself also be one with the Father who was one with Him. “Holy Father,” he says, “keep them in your name whom you has given me: that they may be one, as we also are.” [248] “And not for them alone do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you has sent me. And the glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one: I in them, and you in me; that they may be made perfect in one; and the world may know that you have sent me.

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