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László Vanyó: The Patristic interpretation of 'Redemptio'

antee of the permanence of the likeness is the Holy Spirit.42 The perfect redeemed man is the spirital man, in whom the presence of the Spirit is enduring, protects his body and his soul irréprochable, believers in God, just with the fellow man.43 The enduring possession of the life is possible only by the Spirit.44 Alone the "arrhabon", the "pignus" makes the man resembling to God and living.45 The body of the man who is resembling to God receives the attributes of the soul but leaves not his originel bodyly qualities, only his actions become the actions of the "spiritalis homo"46

The texts quoted illustrate well the pneumatical aspect of the doctrine of the anakephalaiosis. That is yet important, because the incarnation abbreviates the past, condensing it in the recapitulation, it is in certain sense the ending of the past, but the outpouring of the Holy Spirit brings the overture of the perspective, the dilatatio of the anakephalaiosis towards the eschaton and makes it really universal.

If Irenaeus considered the earthly life of Jesus Christ as a series of victorious battles, in which the final combat was the death, if Irenaeus expresses it as: “He redeemed us by His blood, He payed a ran- some for us", then he used Biblical notions. The positive side of redemption is the reconciliation whih based on the suffering and cruci42 "Afflatus igitur temporalis; Spiritus autem sempiternus. Et afflatus quidem auctus ad modicum, et tempore aloquo manens, deinde abit, sine spiramente reliquens illud in quo fuit ante ...Spiritus autem circumdans intus et foris hominem, quippe semper perseverans,

nunquam relinquens eum

.......Oportuerat enim primo plasmari hominem, et plasmatum

accipere animam, deinde sic communionem Spiritus recipere" (AH V,12,2 Harvay 11,351)

43 "Perfecti igitur, qui et Spiritum in se perseverantem habuerint Dei, et animas et corpora sine querela servaverint, Dei, id est illam, quas ad Deum est, fidem servantes, et eam, quae ad proximum est, iustitiam custodientes" (AH V,7,2 Harvey 11,338).

44 "...uti per Spiritum semper permanentem habeant vitam" ( AH V,6,l Harvey 11,338)

45 "Si enim pignus complectens hominem in semetipsum, iam facit dicere, Abba Pater, quid faciet universa Spiritus gratia, quae hominibus dabitur a Deo? Similes nos ei efficiet, et perficiet voluntate Patris, efficiet enim hominem secundum imaginem et similitudinem Dei." (AH V,8,l Harvey 11,339)

46 "Ubi autem Spiritus Patris, ibi homo vivens, sanguis rationalis ad ultionem a Deo custodiens, caro a Spiritu possessa oblita quidem sui, qualitatem autem Spiritus assumens, onformis facta Verbo" (AH V,9,2 Harvey 11,343) "...sic et homo per fidem insertus et assumens Spiritum Dei, substantiam quidem carnis non amittit, qualitatem autem operum immutat, et aliud accipit vocabulum, significans illam quae in melius est transmutationem, iam non caro et sanguis, sed homo spiritalis existons et dicitur" (AH V,10,12 Harvey 11,346)

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