About sixty of them fled to Constantinople, where all the town saw them, and heard them speak daily, and that for many years.
Application. Wickedness dims the understanding. Be always pious and virtuous, and you will never have any doubts respecting the truth of your faith. ' If any man will do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God' (John vii. 16, 17).
The Third Article.
'Who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary. '
(See Short Hist, of Revealed Rel., 21, 22, 23.[1])
1. What does the Third Article of the Creed principally teach us?
It teaches us that the Son of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, became man through the operation of the Holy Ghost, was born of the Virgin Mary, and is called our Lord Jesus Christ.
'The Word [the Only-begotten of the Father] was made flesh, and dwelt among us' (John i. 14).
2. What do we call this Mystery?
The Incarnation of the Son of God.
3. What is, then, our belief concerning Jesus Christ, when we believe the Mystery of the Incarnation?
We believe that Jesus Christ is both true God and true man, or that He is a God-Man: He is God from eternity, and became man in time.
When Christ says, 'I and the Father are one,' He speaks of Himself as God; and when He says, 'The Father is greater than I, ' He speaks of Himself as Man.
4. What do we mean by saying Jesus Christ is also true man?
We mean that He had a human body and a human
- ↑ The history of the Birth, Life, and Passion of Christ is to be learned from the Short History of Revealed Religion.
