Tuesday, May 10 : Saint Augustine

As the Son of God and equal to the Father, he simply is, together with the Father, the hidden source of authority, he does not receive it. But he does receive it, in order that both good and bad may see him judging, as Son of man. Yes, even the bad will be given a sight of the Son of man: but a sight of the form of God will be granted only to the pure of heart, because they shall see God (Mt 5:8) (…) And what else is eternal life but that sight which is not granted to the wicked? “That they may know you”, he says of it, “the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (Jn 17:3), and in what way to know Jesus Christ as well, if not in the same way as the one true God, who will show himself to them (…)? His essential goodness, in the last resort, is attained in that sight or vision in which God is manifested to the pure of heart: “How good is the God of Israel to the upright of heart” (Ps 73[72]:1) ! But that young man was seeking eternal life, and eternal life consists in that contemplation by which God is seen not to one’s undoing but to everlasting joy, and he did not realize whom he was speaking to, imagining him to be only a son of man. So, “Why ask me about the good? No one is good but God alone, (Mk 10:17-18) (…) This is the form of the Son of man, this form has been received, this form will appear in judgment to the wicked as well as to the good (…) There is however a sight of that form of mine in which I thought it no robbery to be equal to God, though I emptied (Phil 2:6-7) myself to take this one.” That one God, therefore, Father Son and Holy Spirit, whose manifestation will mean nothing but a joy which will not be taken away from the just.
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