DISSERTATION IV. 323 first-created, the first of the works of God : If they call the Logos, God of God, the second. God, light of light, &c. since it is granted these expressions mayhave a reference to the tem- poral ante-mundane generation, they may all be explained by the real derivation or production of the angelic Logos from God, who in the first moment of his existence was united to and made one with God's eternal Logos, that is, his divine word, or wis- dom, and thus became a glorious and proper medium of God's manifestations and operations, which is the ancient and original notion of the Boyd, or word. As the divine Logos becomes the Son of God, and receives inferior attributions, by a personal union to the angelic Logos, Who is God's first-born Son, so the angelic Logos, or human soul of Christ, who is properly the Son of God, becomes true nod, and receives supreme attributions, by his most intimate and personal union with the divine Logos, or godhead, and thereby becoming one complex person of action and passion. The com- mon figure of the comnaunicatio idfomatum, in all languages, makes this very easy and intelligible. Thus in the languageof philosophy, and the schools, when man is called a rational animal we do not suppose that an animal body can be the subject of rational properties ; but the animal is made rational by being personally united to a rational spirit, and thereby becoming one person, one complex principle of action and passion. This would account also for any such expressions, as an in- ferior nature being made God, '6ëowotapErd, by a participation of the godhead of the rather. The human or angelic Logos, who le most properly the Son of God, was made, or became God, by the union of the divine Logos to him, even as in scripture language, The Word became flesh, by the union of the flesh to him ; John i. 14. And in the same sense Justin Martyr calls the Logos accprxwootem, made flesh, Nor is it strange that any expressions of Origen should be so interpreted, when we con- sider that he supposes the soul and body of Christ, even the whole man ; to be made partaker of godhead, and to pass into God, or become God in the same manner, xExonwraxara Ta; 0od1sT6 a; ho, 1440C4sww00 contra Celsum, libro iii. And the council of Antioch says, " The body that was born of the virgin was united to godhead, and was made God, ,n thoTn1 soyras sat TEBEOrmmra,. This hypothesis easilyexplains how the Logos comes to be called the angel, for in his lower nature he is a separate created spirit, and thus maywell be called the messenger, the minister, the servant of his Father. This skews how he is subject to the Father in all things, how Ile is employed; and sent by the Fa- ther on various transactions, how he derives his godhead from the Father, how the Father is God originally, and of himself; how the Son acknowledges the Father to be eminently the only x2
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