The Gospel lesson, dearly beloved, which has reached the inner hearing of our minds through our bodily ears, calls us to the understanding of a great mystery, to which we shall, by the help of God’s grace, the better attain if we turn our attention to what is narrated just before.
The Saviour of mankind, Jesus Christ, in founding that faith which recalls the wicked to righteousness and the dead to life, used to instruct His disciples by admonitory teaching and by miraculous acts, to the end that He, the Christ, might be believed to be at once the Only-begotten of God and the Son of Man. For the one without the other was of no avail to salvation, and it was equally dangerous to have believed the Lord Jesus Christ to be either only God without manhood or only man without Godhead, since both had equally to be confessed, because, just as true manhood existed in His Godhead, so true Godhead existed in His Manhood.
