Whether there was faith in Christ's soul; and whether the saints already translated to heaven have face-to-face knowledge of God
Article XII. Whether there was faith in Christ's soul; and whether the saints already translated to heaven have face-to-face knowledge of God.
1. Orthodox theologians commonly deny that faith was in Christ's soul as in ours. From conception he had clear beatific vision of God; faith and vision do not coexist in the same subject about the same object.
2. Some say Christ as wayfarer knew some things by faith in his outward humiliation. Safer: his knowledge of divine things was always above faith, because he was personally united to the Logos.
3. Saints in heaven have not faith but vision. Faith is evacuated in the homeland (1 Corinthians 13). Seeing face to face, they no longer walk by faith. They have facial knowledge of God — not infinite comprehension, but intuitive beatific vision according to creaturely capacity.
Latin
ART. XII. An fides fuerit in anima CHRISTI? & an sit in Sanctis, qui jam in coelum translati, habeant DEI cognitionem facialem, ut loquuntur. 1. De fide in anima CHRISTI: Theologi Orthododoxi communiter negant fidem fuisse in anima CHRISTI viatoris eodem modo quo in nobis, quia CHRISTUS a primo conceptionis momento visionem DEI claram & beatificam habuit; fides autem & visio simul in eodem subjecto quoad idem objectum non consistunt. 2. Aliqui tamen distinguunt: CHRISTUS ut viator quaedam per fidem cognovit quoad statum externaе humiliationis; sed tutius est dicere cognitionem ejus de rebus divinis semper fuisse superiorem fide, quia personaliter unitus erat Λόγῳ. 3. De Sanctis in coelo: illi non habent fidem, sed visionem. Fides evacuatur in patria, 1 Cor.13. Cum enim videbimus facie ad faciem, non amplius per fidem ambulamus. Habent cognitionem facialem DEI — non quidem comprehensionem infinitam, sed visionem intuitivam & beatificam secundum capacitam creaturae.
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Robert Baron — Philosophia theologiae ancillans from the 1658 Oxford Latin. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII On Being and Essence; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV On the origin of the soul and the propagation of sin. Later Exercitationes / remainder of 213 pp remain.
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Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Not whole Philosophia (213 pp). Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.
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