Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Book VIII. This gift of unity of nature could not be given, as it is, through the Incarnation and the Eucharist , to Christians , unless the Givers Themselves possessed it; i. Sometimes this title is given to the Father , sometimes to the Son , in both cases to save us from corporeal conceptions of God.
But it is also used, in the strict sense, of the Paraclete, as on the day of Pentecost. This sealing makes Him the Father's counterpart, Whose Image He thus becomes, though in the form of a servant. It means that They are of one nature and of one power, and that the Son is the Firstborn, through Whom all things were created.
In Him dwells the whole fullness of the Godhead bodily. The Blessed Apostle Paul in laying down the form for appointing a bishop and creating by his instructions an entirely new type of member of the Church , has taught us in the following words the sum total of all the virtues perfected in him:— Holding fast the word according to the doctrine of faith that he may be able to exhort to sound doctrine and to convict gainsayers.
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers. Titus For in this way he points out that the essentials of orderliness and morals are only profitable for good service in the priesthood if at the same time the qualities needful for knowing how to teach and preserve the faith are not lacking, for a man is not straightway made a good and useful priest by a merely innocent life or by a mere knowledge of preaching.
For an innocent minister is profitable to himself alone unless he be instructed also; while he that is instructed has nothing to support his teaching unless he be innocent.
