Erdő Péter (szerk.): Bűn és isteni irgalom mint a mai ember problémája - Studia Theologica Budapestinensia 30. (2002)

László Vanyó: The Patristic interpretation of 'Redemptio'

3. As a soteriological title the "Khristos i atros" (Christus medicus) is to be found by Ignitius of Antioch: "There is one Physician, who is both flesh and spirit, born and yet nor born, who is God in man, true life in death, both of Mary and of God, first passible and then impassible, Jesus Christ our Lord."5 With the attribute "one" he refers to the divinity, then composes in paradoxes: body-soul, born-unborn, life in death, suffering and impassible, the latter is an allusion to the state after the resurrection. Christ is not someone who cures the illness, but that who treats the death, inasmuch it is life, indeed it is the true life. His medical activity is a part of his redeemer work in the Gospels, Jesus made never a penal miracle, he never saved himahxov, xk öt koma náuxa öcoxpa apa rjkíw ital acAj'pnj %opbç tytvtxo xá áoxépi, abxovç, őt tjV birtpßaAAiüV xb <pûç aiixov vir'tp iránta: zapayj) xe rjn rródtu 17 Kaiyôxpç rj àuôpoioç avxoiç.

3. “oden 'tlixxo jiáaa payera kdi nâç ôeop'oç hifrauííero Kaidaç■ cLynoia Kadpptïxo, nukaia ßaoikeia öietfrdeípexo dtov àndpwirinu>ç ipauepovpéuov elf Kaiuozyza aiőíou àpxpn bi ’eXapßaueu xb napà 6tü áirpptiopenon. ''enden

Xa Trama ouneKiueizo ôta x0 pekexaodai Oauaxou Kaxakuaw.

1. My spirit is devoted to the cross, which is an offence to unbelievers, but to us salvation and eternal life. “Where is the wise? Where is the disputer?" Where is the boasting of those who are called prudent? 2. For our God, Jesus the Christ, was conceived by Mary by the dispensation of God, "as well of the seed of David" as of the Holy Spirit: he was born, and was baptized, that by himself submitting he might purify the water.

XIX: 1. And the virginity of Mary, and her giving birth were hidden from the Prince of this world, as was also the death of the Lord. Three mysteries of a cry which were wrought in the stillness of God. 2. How then was he manifested to the world? A star shone in heaven beyond all the stars, and its light was unspeakable, and its newness caused astonishment, and all the other stars, with the sun and moon, gathered in chorus round this star, and it far exceeded them all in its light; and there was perplexity, whence came this new thing, so unlike them. 3. By this all magic was dissolved and every bond of wickedness vanished away, ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom was destroyed, for God was manifest as man for the "newness" of eternal life, and that which had been prepared by God received its beginning. Hence all things were disturbed, because the abolition of death was being planned.

Smyrn 11,1 (The Apostolic Fathers I, 251-253): 1. Tavxa yàp iráuxa ’énadeu ői ppâç, 'Lua ocjdûpew Kai àh;6ûç crradfv, ùç Koii ixÂrjdûç áféadpocu (aurái* 1, ouy ioairtp amoxoi xiueç Aéyovoiv, xb ôoKeïv aiirbu irenovdéva:i abxo'i xb SoKelu buzeç: i<a\ kkQùk (Jpouovoiu, Ka\ oupßiynnzai aùzolç, oboiu àowpàxoLÇ ku'l ônipouiiauç.

1. For he suffered all these things for us that we might attain salvation, and he truly suffered even as he also truly raised himself, not us some unbelievers say, that his Passion was merely in semblance, - but it is they who are merely in semblance, and even according to their opinion it shall happen to them, and they shall be without bodies and phantasmal.

5 Eph 7,2 Loeb CL. Transi. K.Lake, Apostolic Fathers, 1,181

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