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Reply. The proposition is affirmed to be true, and proper on account
of the truth of the predication.
The reason is that in this proposition the concrete term "God"
stands for the person of the Son. But the person of the Son is a
man, although not the humanity, which is only a part of this
suppositum. It is true to say: "Jesus is a man, " as when it is
said: "Peter is a man."
Hence to say: "God is a man" is to say: "God the Son is the
same suppositum that is man." In every affirmative judgment,
however, the verb "is" expresses real identity between subject and
predicate. Hence this proposition is true in the formal
sense.[1368]
Doubt. Is the word "man" predicated univocally of God and human
beings in this mystery?
Reply. The answer is in the affirmative.[1369] For the word
"man" signifies the suppositum that subsists in the human nature.
But this nature is of the same species in Christ as in human beings.
Therefore Christ is truly called a man.
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