Nevertheless, in this instance, I too doubt with Le Clerc, and more than
doubt.
Ib. p. 338.
[Greek: Phusei de taes phthoras prosgenomenaes, anagkaion aen hoti
sosai Boulomenos ae taen phthoropoion ousian aphanisas touto de ouk
aen heteros genesthai ei maeper hae kata phusin zoae proseplakae to
taen phthoran dexameno, aphanizousa men taen phthoran, athanaton de
tou loipou to dexamenon diataerousa. k.t.l.]--Just. M.
Here Justin asserts that it was necessary for essential life, or life
by nature, to be united with human nature, in order to save it.
Waterland has not mastered the full force of [Greek: hae kata phusin
zoae]. If indeed he had taken in the full force of the whole of this
invaluable fragment, he would never have complimented the following
extract from Irenaeus, as saying the same thing "in fuller and stronger
words." Compared with the fragment from Justin, it is but the flat
common-place logic of analogy, so common in the early Fathers.
Ib. p. 340.
'Qui nude tantum hominem eum dicunt ex Joseph generatum * * moriuntur.'
'Non nude hominem'--not a mere man do I hold Jesus to have been and to
be; but a perfect man and, by personal union with the Logos, perfect
God. That his having an earthly father might be requisite to his being a
perfect man I can readily suppose; but why the having an earthly father
should be more incompatible with his perfect divinity, than his having
an earthly mother, I cannot comprehend.
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