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László Vanyó: The Patristic interpretation of 'Redemptio'

remodeling of the man, and the granting of the likeness by the Holy Spirit, that is the new and final period of the "oeconomia" which accomplishes with the resurrection, when the whole human race receives the form of the new Adam.35

The recapitulation is the compendium and the abbreviatio of the past, but opens the perspective of the salvation of the whole human race, comprehendens also the spirituals beings, consequently develops not only along the horizontal axis, however has a vertical orientation.36

The original intention of God accordingly in the redemption, the man has a great importance, for that, because according to the likeness and the image is in advance a connection between Christ and the man. Christ is the plenitude of the divinity, but the man itself is the glory of God and the receptaculum of the wisdom for God.37 It is the acknowledge of God, that renews the man to the image of the Creator, for this reason, that Irenaeus emphasizes the mode of the redemption as "rationabilis

35 ''....et de coelis in gloria Patris adventum cius ad recapitulanda universa et resuscitandam omnem carnem humani generis." AH 1,2,1 Harvey 1,91."Unus Christus ]esus Dominus noster veniens per universam dispositionem et omnia in semetipsum récapitulons" AH 111,17,6 Harvey Ii,87

36 L"Ostendimus enim, quia non tunc coepit Filius Dei, existens semper apud Patrem, sed quando incarnatus est, et homo factus, longam hominum expositionem in seipso recapitulavit, in compedio nobis salutem praestans, ut quod perdideremus in Adam, id est, secumdum imaginem et similitudinem esse Dei, hoc in Christo Jesu reciperemus." (AH III, 19, 1 Harvey II, 95) "Verbum unigenitus, qui semper humano generi adest, unitus et cosparsus suo plasmati secundum beneplacitum Patris, et caro factus, ipse et Jesus Christus Dominus noster, qui et passus pro nobis, et surrexit propter nos, et rursus venturus est in gloria Patris, ad resuscitandam universam carnem, et ad ostensionem salutis, et regulam iusti iudicii ostendere omnibus qui sub ipso facti sunt. Unus igitur Deus Pater, quemadmodum ostendimus, et unus Christus Dominus noster, veniens per universam dispositionem, et omnia in semetipsum recapitulans. In omnibus autem est et homo plasmatio Dei; et hominem ergo semetipsum recapitulans est, invisibilis visibilis factus, et incomprehensibilis factus conmprehensibilis, et impassibilis passibilis, et Verbum homo, universa in semetipsum recapitulans; ut sicut in supercoelestibus princeps est Verbum Dei, sic et in visibilibus et corporalibus principatum habeat, in semetipsum primatum assumens, et apponens semetipsum caput Ecclesiae, universa attrahat ad semetipsum apto in tempore" (AH III, 17,6; Harvey Ii,87-88)

37 "In Christi enim nomine subaditur qui unxit, et ipse qui unctus est, ipsa inctio, in qua unctus est vero Filius, in Spiritu, qui est unctio...." (AH III, 19,1 Harvey II, 97) "Gloria enim hominis Deus operationes vero Dei; et omnis sapientiae eius et virtutis receptaculum homo" (AH 111,21,1 Harvey 11,97) "Gloria enim Dei vivens homo: vita autem hominis visio Dei" (AH IV,34,7 Harvey Ii,219)

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