Heavenly Doctrine (Chadwick) n. 292

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292. Those who equate the Lord's humanity with that of any other human being are forgetting that He was conceived of the Deity Himself. Nor do they take into account the fact that each person's body is an effigy of his soul. They forget that His resurrection was with His whole body; and they forget about His appearance when He was transfigured and His face shone like the sun. They forget too what the Lord said concerning faith in Him, His being one with the Father, His glorification, and His power over heaven and earth, as being Divine attributes, yet said of His humanity. Neither do they remember that the Lord is present everywhere even in His humanity (Matt. 28:20). Yet this is the source of the belief that He is present everywhere in the Holy Supper; being present everywhere is an attribute of God. Or perhaps they are forgetting that the Divinity which is called the Holy Spirit proceeds from His humanity, for it is said:

The Holy Spirit did not yet exist, because Jesus was not yet glorified. John 7:39.


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