Thursday, February 16, 2012

Unity of the Trinity in Our Resurrection

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

He invigorates them by hope of the future, and inspires them with willing readiness sufficient for present contests.  Before long your bodies will be immortal and superior to the passions that now molest them.  And this the God of all will do, who now so liberally bestows on us the pledge of the Spirit.  And he has given us all a pledge of this resurrection in the resurrection of Christ.  And he teaches by all this the unity of nature in the Godhead, for he calls the thrice-holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, not that, as the infamous heretics say, He was created of the Father by the Son, but that He is one substance with the Father and the Son and proceeds from the Father according to the teaching of the gospels.  His grace it is, that is extended to such as are worthy.

Theodoret of Cyrus, "The Letter to the Romans" on Romans 8:11

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