Volume 13 · pp. 633–634
Sermon LX. On the Holy Trinity
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SERMO LX.
DE S. TRINITATE.
Benedicamus Patrem et Filium cum sancto Spiritu, etc.
I.
NOTA, quod benedicendus est Pater: quia Filium suum unigenitum misit et dedit. Unde Isa. IX, 6: Parvulus natus est nobis, et Filius datus est nobis.
Dedit autem Pater Filium ad tria, scilicet in socium nostræ fatigationis. Unde Paulus loquitur de Filio (ad Hebr. II, 17): Debuit per omnia fratribus similari, ut misericors fieret. Christus in humana natura quam assumpsit de Virgine, passus est nostras pœnalitates, scilicet esuriem, sitim, frigus, et æstum, lassitudinem et mortem, ut per experimentum eorum facilius hujusmodi compatiatur.
2. Dedit etiam Pater Filium in pretium nostræ redemptionis. Unde Apostolus ad Rom. VIII, 32: Qui proprio filio suo non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum.
Dedit etiam eum in viaticum nostræ peregrinationis. Unde ipse filius dicit de seipso, Joan. VI, 51 et 52: Ego sum panis vivus qui de cælo descendi: si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in æternum. Unde et ipse in cœna sedens cum discipulis instituit sacramentum corporis et sanguinis sui, ut hoc a fidelibus et infirmis in via hujus exsilii, quasi pro viatico habeatur.
SERMON LX.
ON THE HOLY TRINITY.
Let us bless the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit, etc.
I.
NOTE that the Father is to be blessed, because he sent and gave his only-begotten Son. Hence Isaiah 9:6: A little child has been born for us, and a Son has been given to us.
But the Father gave the Son for three things, namely as a companion of our weariness. Hence Paul speaks concerning the Son (to Hebrews 2:17): He had to be made like his brothers through all things, so that he might become merciful. Christ in the human nature that he assumed from the Virgin suffered our penalities, namely hunger, thirst, cold and heat, weariness and death, so that through experience of them he may more easily have compassion on things of this kind.
2. The Father also gave the Son as the price of our redemption. Hence the Apostle at Romans 8:32: He who did not spare his own son, but handed him over for us all.
He also gave him as the viaticum of our pilgrimage. Hence the Son himself says concerning himself, John 6:51 and 52: I am the living bread who came down from heaven; if anyone shall eat from this bread, he will live forever. Hence also, sitting at supper with the disciples, he established the sacrament of his body and blood, so that this may be had by the faithful and infirm on the way of this exile, as if for viaticum.
II.
Benedicendus est etiam Filius, quia venire voluit. Unde legitur in Isa. VI, 8, quod cum dixisset Pater: Quem mittam, et quis ibit ex nobis? Respondit Filius: Ecce ego, mitte me.
III.
Benedicendus est etiam Spiritus sanctus, quia ad hoc ut Filius incarnaretur et mitteretur, consilium dedit, et cooperator bonus fuit. Unde dicitur in Genes. XXII, 2, quod Angelus, id est, Spiritus sanctus dixit ad Abraham, id est, ad Patrem: Tolle filium tuum unigenitum, quem diligis, Isaac, id est, risum vel gaudium: quia in nativitate ejus gaudium ab Angelis nuntiatum est, et offer illum in holocaustum, etc., id est, illum in monte Calvariæ pro mundi salute crucifigi permitte, etc.
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II.
The Son also is to be blessed, because he wished to come. Hence it is read in Isaiah 6:8 that when the Father had said: Whom shall I send, and who will go from us? the Son responded: Behold, I, send me.
III.
The Holy Spirit also is to be blessed, because for this, that the Son should be incarnated and sent, he gave counsel, and was a good cooperator. Hence it is said in Genesis 22:2 that the Angel, that is, the Holy Spirit, said to Abraham, that is, to the Father: Take your only-begotten son, whom you love, Isaac, that is, laughter or joy, because at his nativity joy was announced by Angels, and offer him as a holocaust, etc., that is, permit him to be crucified on Mount Calvary for the salvation of the world, etc.
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