CHAPTER XXVI: QUESTION 24: THE PREDESTINATION OF CHRIST IMPORTANCE OF THIS QUESTION

[1605] Eph. 1:5

[1606] Rom. 1:3f.

[1607] The Vulgate has "praedestinatus, " as if the Greek reading were prooristhentos; in the Greek we find horisthentos which has more the meaning of declaratus est, " that is, "He was declared the Son of God, in power, according to the spirit of sanctification, from the resurrection of the dead." This last interpretation is the one proposed by St. John Chrysostom, Theophylactus, and others, as well as by many exegetes.

[1608] De praed. sanct., chap. 15.

[1609] Ibid., no. 31

[1610] Summa theol., Ia, q. 23, a. 1, 5

[1611] Ibid., IIIa, q. 27, a. 5, c. et ad 2.

[1612] Ibid., IIa IIae, q. 88, a. 6.

[1613] Ibid., Ia, q. 23, a. 5

[1614] I Cor. 4:7.

[1615] Eph. 1:4

[1616] De praed. sanct., chap. 15

[1617] Summa theol., Ia, q. 19, a. 5.

[1618] Rom. 8:29

[1619] Summa theol., IIIa, q. 24, a. 3, c.

[1620] John 1:16

[1621] I Cor. 3:23.

[1622] Rom. 8:29

[1623] Predestination is man's choicest benediction

[1624] Eph. 1:3f.

[1625] cf. the Salmanticenses, Gonet, and John of St. Thomas in their commentaries on Ia, q. 23, a. 5. Also Billuart in his commentary on the present article. See also what we said above on Christ's merit

[1626] John 15 16

[1627] De praed. sanct., chap. 19; De corrept. et gratia, chap. 7.

[1628] Com. in Joan., chap. 15; also Ep. ad Eph

[1629] John 15:15

[1630] I Cor. 4:7.

[1631] John 1:16.

[1632] See p. 482.

[1633] Bull Ineffabilis Deus

[1634] I Cor. 3:22f.