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| Chapter IV. The Unity of God is necessarily implied in the order of Nature, in the Faith, and in Baptism. The gifts of the Magi declare (1) the Unity of the Godhead; (2) Christ's Godhead and Manhood. The truth of the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity is shown in the Angel walking in the midst of the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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Chapter IV.
The Unity of God is necessarily implied in the order of
Nature, in the Faith, and in Baptism. The gifts of the Magi
declare (1) the Unity of the Godhead; (2) Christ’s Godhead and
Manhood. The truth of the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity is
shown in the Angel walking in the midst of the furnace with Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego.
31. All nature
testifies to the Unity of God, inasmuch as the universe is one.
The Faith declares that there is one God, seeing that there is one
belief in both the Old and the New Testament. That there is one
Spirit, all holy,1728
| 1728 The Spirit here
spoken of is, according to Hurter’s interpretation, not the Third
Person of the Trinity, but the Triune God, Who is a Spirit
(John iv. 24; 2 Cor. iii.
17). | grace
witnesseth, because there is one Baptism, in the Name of the
Trinity. The prophets proclaim, the apostles hear, the voice of
one God. In one God did the Magi believe, and they brought, in
adoration, gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Christ’s cradle,
confessing, by the gift of gold, His Royalty, and with the incense
worshipping Him as God. For gold is the sign of kingdom, incense
of God, myrrh of burial.1729
| 1729 Hymns A. and
M. 76, stanza 4. |
32.
What, then, was the meaning of the mystic offerings in the lowly
cattle-stalls, save that we should discern in Christ the difference
between the Godhead and the flesh? He is seen as man,1730
He is adored as Lord. He lies in
swaddling-clothes, but shines amid the stars; the cradle shows His
birth, the stars His dominion;1731
| 1731 Rev. i. 16; xxii. 16: S. Matt. ii. Cf.
Num. xxiv. 17. | it is the flesh
that is wrapped in clothes, the Godhead that receives the ministry of
angels. Thus the dignity of His natural majesty is not lost, and
His true assumption of the flesh is proved.
33. This is our Faith. Thus did God
will that He should be known by all, thus believed the three
children,1732
and felt not
the fire into the midst whereof they were cast, which destroyed and
burnt up unbelievers,1733
whilst it
fell harmless as dew upon the faithful,1734
for whom the flames kindled by others
became cold, seeing that the torment had justly lost its power in
conflict with faith. For with them there was One in the form of
an angel,1735
comforting
them,1736
to the end that in the number of the
Trinity one Supreme Power might be praised. God was praised, the
Son of God was seen in God’s angel, holy and spiritual grace
spake in the children.1737
| 1737 Dan. iv. 25. In the number of the three
children was shadowed forth the number of Persons in the Trinity,
whilst in the Angel, who was one, was shown the Unity of power or
nature. In another way, too, St. Ambrose points out, was the
Trinity typified in that event, inasmuch as God was praised, the Angel
of God was present, and the Spirit, or the Grace of God spake in the
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