What does this quote mean?
“We confess the Holy Virgin to be the mother of God because God the Word took flesh and became man and from his very conception united to himself the temple he took from her.”
Can you focus on this part:
"...and from his very conception united to himself the temple he took from her."
What "temple" is being referred to?
2007-10-11 13:58:53 · 11 answers · asked by Smittysama 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-10-11 14:08:51 · update #1
"Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy." (Cf. 1Co 3:16-17)
Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit......and the Blessed Mother provided the flesh.....or body to the Son of God.
Refer to the 1st chapter of St. John's gospel.
It was the will of God that His only Son take on flesh (become incarnate) and sacrifice such Body upon the cross. Jesus is both God and man.
As Jesus is both God and man, and the Blessed Mother was His mother.....she is the Mother of God.
2007-10-11 15:38:25 · answer #1 · answered by The Cub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The temple is the body. Many times in the Bible the word temple is used to describe a persons body.
The quote means:
We believe that the Holy Virgin (Mary) is the mother of God because the spirit of God became a man and joined Himself with the body of the Virgin.
2007-10-11 21:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I do not give Mary any divine
devotion. She was elected
by God to be the mother of
Jesus Christ. She was a virgin
at the time. She brought
forth the Son of God.
But God the Father, God the
Son and God the Holy Spirit
are to be worshipped, not
Mary. Some denominations
give Mary the same honor
as the Lord...I don't think that
she even wants this.
2007-10-11 21:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.all.org/abac/clontx10.htm
this link might explain some of the language (this quote is from the 4th or 5th century....they talked weird then) but it appears to refute the argument at the time that God's flesh was made first, then His Soul infused into the flesh. These statements were constructed to refute that argument, citing instead, that both Body and Soul of our Lord was created at the same instant as the Blessed Virgin's fiat.
2007-10-11 21:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The temple is the body,mary gave life to Jesus when he was born and he became a temple while here.
2007-10-11 21:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that the temple is referring to the body. i.e. Christ united himself to the body he took from Mary. This is simply saying that Christs humanity comes from Mary, thus truly making her the mother of God.
2007-10-11 21:07:29 · answer #6 · answered by ozchristianguy 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Mary is the temple that bore the son of God. She is the Ark of the New Covenant
2007-10-11 21:03:49 · answer #7 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I do not know who wrote this, but the temple means body.
2007-10-11 21:04:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
temple usually means body.
2007-10-11 21:04:43 · answer #9 · answered by Chona S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
this story is an omen of christian hypocrisy arrogance and ignorance... a person who chooses to believe that a woman has a virgin birth as opposed to thinking a woman who conceives a child out of wed lock can be a good person is a fool..... And as in all foolish things the lies that spun around it are equally ridiculous
2007-10-11 21:13:47 · answer #10 · answered by NO Labels 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋