2 Peter 1:4 (WEB)
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Catechism · 8
The Paschal Mystery in the Church's Sacraments
“"Sacramental grace" is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. the Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. the fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Pet 1:4.
The Sacrament of Baptism
“Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature,"” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 5:17; 2 Pet 1:4; cf. Gal 4:5-7.
Life in Christ
“What faith confesses, the sacraments communicate: by the sacraments of rebirth, Christians have become "children of God," "partakers of the divine nature."” — Catechism footnote: 2 Pet 1:4.
Our Vocation to Beatitude
“Beatitude makes us "partakers of the divine nature" and of eternal life.” — Catechism footnote: 2 Pet 1:4; cf. Jn 17:3.
The Virtues
“The human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues, which adapt man's faculties for participation in the divine nature:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Pet 1:4.
Grace and Justification
“Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:12-18; 17:3; Rom 8:14-17; 2 Pet 1:3-4.
The Son of God Became Man
“The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature":” — Catechism footnote: 2 Pt 1:4.
The Revelation of God
“His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus become sharers in the divine nature."” — Catechism footnote: DV 2; cf. Eph 1:9; 2:18; 2 Pt 1:4
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
“Great and precious are the promises attaching to virginity which He has given us,that through it we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world through lust.The Lord knoweth how to…” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“…thee and thou in me are one, so they all may be one in us,” and reminds us that the whole Christian people is one in God, and, as His well-beloved sons, are“partakers of the divine nature.”” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…is the Son; for, as partaking of the Son Himself, we are said to partake of God; and this is what Peter said ‘that ye may be partakers in a divine nature;’ as says too the Apostle, ‘Know ye not, that ye are a temple of God?’ and, ‘We are the temple of a living God.’” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“Let us keep our whole mind from guile; not giving up ourselves to excess, and to lusts, but occupying ourselves entirely with our Lord, and with divine doctrines; so that, being altogether pure, we may be able to partake of the Word.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Pet. i. 4
Read the whole comment“For what the human Body of the Word suffered, this the Word, dwelling in the body, ascribed to Himself, in order that we might be enabled to be partakers of the Godhead of the Word.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4, above, p. 65, note 5.
Read the whole comment“For He has become Man, that He might deify us in Himself, and He has been born of a woman, and begotten of a Virgin, in order to transfer to Himself our erring generation, and that we may become henceforth a holy race, and ‘partakers of the Divine Nature,’ as blessed Peter wrote.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“…He took a human body for the salvation and well-being of man, that having shared in human birth He might make man partake in the divine and spiritual nature; or to liken the divine to senseless animals and consequently to worship four-footed beasts, creeping things and the likenesses of men?” — editor's note: Cf. de Incar. 54. 3; 2 Pet. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.” — editor's note: θεοποιηθῶμεν. See Orat. ii. 70, note 1, and many other passages in those Discourses, as well as Letters 60. 4, 61. 2. (Eucharistic reference), de Synodis 51,…
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For thus we come to bear Christ in us, because His Body and Blood are distributed through our members; thus it is that, according to the blessed Peter, we become partakers of the divine nature.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. i. 4.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…has not lost through being Flesh what constituted the Word, nor has become transformed into Flesh, so as to cease to be the Word; but the Word was made Flesh in order that the Flesh might begin to be what the Word is.” — editor's note: The Flesh, without ceasing to be truly flesh, is represented as becoming divine like the Word. That is, the humanity becomes so endowed with power, and…
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Basil the Great
“Let them learn that “Christ is the power of God and wisdom of God,” and that “He is the image of the invisible God” and “brightness of his glory,” and that “Him hath God the Father sealed,” by engraving Himself on Him.” — editor's note: The more obvious interpretation of ἐσφράγισεν in John vi. 27, would be sealed with a mark of approval, as in the miracle just performed. cf. Bengel, “sigillo…
Read the whole comment“Hence comes foreknowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of what is hidden, distribution of good gifts, the heavenly citizenship, a place in the chorus of angels, joy without end, abiding in God, the being made like to God, and, highest of all, the being made God.” — editor's note: Θεὸν γενεσθαι. The thought has its most famous expression in Ath. de Incar. § 54. He was made man that we might be made God—Θεοποιηθῶμεν. cf. De Decretis, §…
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Augustine of Hippo
“…one; which, therefore, although changeable, yet can be partaker of that unchangeable wisdom, so that “it may partake of that which is in and of itself;” as it is written in the Psalm concerning all saints, of whom as of living stones is built that Jerusalem which is the mother of us all, eternal in the heavens.” — editor's note: [The original is: “ut sit participatio ejus in idipsum.” The English translator renders: “So that it may partake thereof in itself.” The thought of Augustin…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…me from my Citadel Solitude, which I had embraced in preference to everything else, and as coadjutress and mother of the divine ascent, and as deifying man, I had especially admired, and had set before me as the guide of my whole life.” — editor's note: S. Gregory very frequently uses this very strong expression to bring out the reality and intimacy of the Christian’s Union with Christ as the result of the…
Read the whole comment“What greater destiny can befall man’s humility than that he should be intermingled with God, and by this intermingling should be deified, and that we should be so visited by the Dayspring from on high, that even that Holy Thing that should be born should be called the Son of the Highest, and that…” — editor's note: See Prolegomena, sec. ii. and 2 Pet. i. 4.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God.” — editor's note: ἔσται καὶ Θεός, referring probably to 2 Pet. i. 4, ἵνα διὰ τούτων γένησθε θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως, “that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.”…
Read the whole comment“But if thou art desirous of also becoming a god, obey Him that has created thee, and resist not now, in order that, being found faithful in that which is small, you may be enabled to have entrusted to you also that which is great.” — editor's note: Matt. xxv. 21, 23; Luke xvi. 10, 11, 12. [Also 2 Pet. i. 4, one of the king-texts of the inspired oracles.]
Read the whole comment“For thou hast become God: for whatever sufferings thou didst undergo while being a man, these He gave to thee, because thou wast of mortal mould, but whatever it is consistent with God to impart, these God has promised to bestow upon thee, because thou hast been deified, and begotten unto immortality.” — editor's note: [This startling expression is justified by such texts as 2 Pet. i. 4 compared with John xvii. 22, 23, and Rev. iii. 21. Thus, Christ overrules the Tempter…
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Tertullian
“Now, although Adam was by reason of his condition under law subject to death, yet was hope preserved to him by the Lord’s saying, “Behold, Adam is become as one of us;” that is, in consequence of the future taking of the man into the divine nature.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 22. [II. Peter, i. 4.]
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…an actual fellowship with man, and has effected life as a living fact, so that by means of the flesh which He has assumed, and at the same time deified, everything kindred and related may be saved along with it, it was necessary that some means should be devised by which there might be, in the baptismal…” — editor's note: the flesh which He has assumed, and at the same time deified. “Un terme cher aux Pères du IVe siècle, de nous déifier” (Denis, Philosophie d’Origène, p. 458).…
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Cross-references · 43
Cited together in Catechism §1692.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
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Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
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Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.4.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in Catechism §1692 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in Catechism §1996.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 37.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.30.
Cited together in Catechism §1721 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1996 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1265 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1721.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in Orations Oration 3.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §52.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies X.29.
Cited together in Catechism §51.
Cited together in Catechism §51.
Cited together in Catechism §1692.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.