Saturday, 5 January 2019

John Calvin on the Hypostatic Union


John Calvin on Christ's divine and human natures:

'For we know that in Christ the two natures were united into one person in such a manner that each retained its own properties; and more especially the divine nature was in a state of repose, and did not at all exert itself, whenever it was necessary that the human nature should act separately, according to what was peculiar to itself, in discharging the office of mediator. There would be no impropriety, therefore in saying that Christ, who knew all things (John 21:17), was ignorant of something in respect of his perception as a man; for otherwise he could not have been liable to grief and anxiety, and could not have been like us (Hebrews 2:17).'

John Calvin’s Commentaries on the Harmony of the Gospels, Vol 3, p145

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