1Cor 5.28: “We here come on one of the most important and difficult conceptions of our Epistle, and of St. Paul’s Epistle in general. It is difficult to harmonize this idea of the subjection of the Son with the ordinary conception of the Trinity, according to which the Son is eternally equal with the Father… A larger number distinguish between the Divine and the human nature of Christ, and ascribe what is here said of him only to the latter. This attempt to divide the Lord’s person into two natures, one of them subject, while the other remains free and self-sufficient, is the more unfortunate in this passage, as the word used to designate Christ is precisely that which most forcibly characterizes His Divine being [The Son], absolutely speaking… This author concludes that the idea of the subjection of the Son…is in contradiction not only to the ecclesiastical dogma of the Trinity, but also to all the expressions of St. Paul which imply Christ’s divinity and pre-existence. I do not think that so logical a mind as that of the apostle can with any probability be suspected of self-contradiction, especially on a point of such fundamental importance… I have already remarked once and again that the idea of the subordination of the Son to the Father expressly forms part of his Christological conception, no less than that of his Divine pre-existence. The two notions are simultaneously included in the title Son…Exactly so is it with the term Word in John…The living monotheism of Paul, John and the other apostles was not less rigorous than ours, and yet it found no contradiction between these two affirmations.” Commentary on St. Pauls First Epistle to the Corinthians, Volume 2, F. L. Godet.
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