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Reply. Christ's soul in its proper nature and power was incapable of
changing the natural disposition of its body, so that it could not have
the effect of exempting the body from the laws of gravitation or of the
necessity of taking food, or of feeling the blows inflicted on it.
The reason is that the soul of its own nature has a determinate
relation to its own body. Christ's soul, although it was already
beatified, had assumed a passible body, namely, a body that conformed
to the conditions of passibility.[1290]
Christ's soul, however, inasmuch as it was the instrument of the
Word, could miraculously change the natural disposition of its body,
so that the body was not subject to the laws of gravitation, or did not
suffer from the blows and wounds inflicted on it. So also Christ
miraculously preserved several martyrs from physical pain.
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