"IT IS just as necessary for the Christian to believe in the passion and death of the Son of God as it is to believe in His Incarnation. For, as St. Gregory says, “there would have been no advantage in His having been born for us unless we had profited by His Redemption.” That Christ died for us is so tremendous a fact that our intellect can scarcely grasp it; for in no way does it fall in the natural way of our understanding. This is what the Apostle says: “I work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it to you” [Acts 13:41, from Hab 1:5]. The grace of God is so great and His love for us is such that we cannot understand what He has done for us. Now, we must believe that, although Christ suffered death, yet His Godhead did not die; it was the human nature in Christ that died. For He did not die as God, but as man."
~St. Thomas Aquinas: The Apostles' Creed, Art. 4. (excerpt)
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| Crucifixion with Mourners and Sts Dominic and Thomas Aquinas, by Fra Angelico. Fresco, A.D. 1441-42; Convento di San Marco, Florence. |
