Folia Theologica 11. (2000)

László Vanyó: The Patristic Interpretation of 'Redemptio'

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L. VANYÓ

but he intends only the manner of redemption, the essence of what is the reconciliation. In a noteworthy verse of the Antihereticus adversus Apolinarium says that the Word as a sheperd assumed and united to himself the hundredth sheep, and, as an analogy to “the Word became flesh", he says: “the sheperd became sheep”.57 58 The idea returns by Augustine, too: “ipse ut pro omnibus pateretur, ovis est factus.

7. The teaching of redemption of St. Augustine is original as regards the sequence of ideas, but he has not one element which could not have been found in the practice and in the prayers of the Church. At the same time in some places he corrected the early ideas of the “rights” of Satan, and deals profoundly the righteouses of redemption. The nature of reSoÇet xov vopw KxqGevxa xupawtKCûç eçaipoup evoç: ei;a>vetc6at Se 7taX.iv et ßouAotxo Tov xotouxov, ouSetç o kcûXucûv vopoç ecra: (23) Kaxa xov auxov xpo7iov eKouatcüv qpcuv eauxouç anep no Aqoavxa) v eôet Ttapa xou St ayaGoxqxa naA.iv qpaç etç eAeuGeptav eçatpoupevou pq xov xupavvtKov, aXXa xov SiKatov xpoíiov entvoqGqvai xqç avaKX.qaecoç. ouxoç Se eoxt xtç xo era xa> Kpaxouvxt notqoaoGat 7tav 07tep av eGcoXot Xuxpov avxi xou Kaxeyopevou Xaßetv.

57 Adversus Apolinarium, Gergorii Nysseni Opera 111, 1, (Leiden 1968, ed. F.Muel- ler) 151-152:

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58 In Joh.ev. tract. 123,5