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State of the question. It seems not, because Christ's humanity is
a creature. And Christ as man is less than the Father.
Reply. Authoritative proof. St. Thomas in the counterargument
quotes the authority of St. John Damascene and of St. Augustine.
Theological proof. The honor of adoration properly belongs to the
person. But the person to whom Christ's humanity belongs is divine,
and the honor of latria is due to this person. Hence this adoration is
not given to Christ's humanity because of itself, but because of the
divinity to which it is united.
Corollary. We say that Christ's humanity must be adored, not by a
relative adoration, as the image of Christ must be adored, but by
adoration in the strict and absolute sense; because the person is
adored whose humanity is a nature. However, first and primarily the
person of the Word incarnate is adored, which is the terminus of the
adoration.
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