An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Book IV

Book IV

• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.1 — Concerning what followed the Resurrection. After Christ was risen from the dead He laid aside all His passions, I mean His corruption or hunger or thirst or sleep or weariness or such like. For, although He did taste…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.2 — Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father. We hold, moreover, that Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.3 — Chapter III.—In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service to the creature in worshipping created nature, or ye say that there is one nature to be worshipped, and another not to be…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.4 — Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what having became man He achieved. Chapter IV.—Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.5 — In reply to those who ask if Christ's subsistence is create or uncreate. The subsistence of God the Word before the Incarnation was simple and uncompound, and incorporeal and uncreate: but after it became flesh, it…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.6 — Concerning the question, when Christ was called. The mind was not united with God the Word, as some falsely assert, before the Incarnation by the Virgin and from that time called Christ. That is the absurd nonsense…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.7 — In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross. Chapter VII.—In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.8 — How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born. He who is first begotten is called first-born, whether he is only-begotten or the first of a number of brothers. If then the Son of God was called first-born,…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.9 — Concerning Faith and Baptism. We confess one baptism for the remission of sins and for life eternal. For baptism declares the Lord’s death. We are indeed “buried with the Lord through baptism,” as saith the divine…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.10 — Concerning Faith. Moreover, faith is twofold. For faith cometh by hearing. For by hearing the divine Scriptures we believe in the teaching of the Holy Spirit. The same is perfected by all the things enjoined by…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11 — Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith. The word ‘Cross’ is foolishness to those that perish, but to us who are saved it is the power of God. For he that is spiritual judgeth all things, but the…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.12 — Concerning Worship towards the East. It is not without reason or by chance that we worship towards the East. But seeing that we are composed of a visible and an invisible nature, that is to say, of a nature partly of…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.13 — Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord. God Who is good and altogether good and more than good, Who is goodness throughout, by reason of the exceeding riches of His goodness did not suffer Himself,…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.14 — Concerning our Lord's genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God. Concerning the holy and much-lauded ever-virgin one, Mary, the Mother of God, we have said something in the preceding chapters, bringing forward…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.15 — Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains. To the saints honour must be paid as friends of Christ, as sons and heirs of God: in the words of John the theologian and evangelist, As many as received…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.16 — Concerning Images. But since some find fault with us for worshipping and honouring the image of our Saviour and that of our Lady, and those, too, of the rest of the saints and servants of Christ, let them remember…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.17 — Concerning Scripture. It is one and the same God Whom both the Old and the New Testament proclaim, Who is praised and glorified in the Trinity: I am come, saith the Lord, not to destroy the law but to fulfil it. For…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.18 — Regarding the things said concerning Christ. The things said concerning Christ fall into four generic modes. For some fit Him even before the incarnation, others in the union, others after the union, and others after…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.19 — That God is not the cause of evils. It is to be observed that it is the custom in the Holy Scripture to speak of God’s permission as His energy, as when the apostle says in the Epistle to the Romans, Hath not the…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.20 — That there are not two Kingdoms. That there are not two kingdoms, one good and one bad, we shall see from this. For good and evil are opposed to one another and mutually destructive, and cannot exist in one another…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.21 — The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent. Chapter XXI.—The purposefor which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent. God in His…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.22 — Concerning the law of God and the law of sin. The Deity is good and more than good, and so is His will. For that which God wishes is good. Moreover the precept, which teaches this, is law, that we, holding by it, may…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.23 — Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath. The seventh day is called the Sabbath and signifies rest. For in it God rested from all His works, as the divine Scripture says: and so the number of the days goes up…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.24 — Concerning Virginity. Carnal men abuse virginity, and the pleasure-loving bring forward the following verse in proof, Cursed be every one that raiseth not up seed in Israel. But we, made confident by God the Word…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25 — Concerning the Circumcision. The Circumcision was given to Abraham before the law, after the blessings, after the promise, as a sign separating him and his offspring and his household from the Gentiles with whom he…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.26 — Concerning the Antichrist. It should be known that the Antichrist is bound to come. Every one, therefore, who confesses not that the Son of God came in the flesh and is perfect God and became perfect man, after being…vatican.va
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.27 — Concerning the Resurrection. We believe also in the resurrection of the dead. For there will be in truth, there will be, a resurrection of the dead, and by resurrection we mean resurrection of bodies. For…vatican.va