Annotation XXX

”Thy kingdom come,” etc. — Matthew 6:10

Whether Christ is to be called "the Lordly man" (homo dominicus).

Augustine, in the second book On the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, wrote here that Christ is a “Lordly man” (homo dominicus), saying that the only-begotten Son of God would come from heaven, in the Lordly man, to judgment. This same thing he retracted in the second book of the Retractations, chapter 19, saying: “Wherever I said this, I could wish I had not said it; for since Christ Jesus is by nature Lord, he cannot be called a ‘Lordly man.’” On which matter St. Thomas, in the 16th question of the third part, brings this reason: that since this word “Lord” is said of the Son of God according to [his] essence, it ought not to be predicated of him according to a denomination [derived name], and as though [it were] something accessory.