{"id":22014,"date":"2023-03-10T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/?p=22014"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T04:56:18","slug":"rufinus-on-the-mystery-of-the-incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/rufinus-on-the-mystery-of-the-incarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rufinus On the Mystery of the Incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Fisher of Men<\/h4>\n<p>The object of [the] mystery of the Incarnation &#8230; was that the divine virtue of the Son of God, as though it were a hook concealed beneath the form and fashion of human flesh (He being, as the Apostle Paul says, \u201cfound in fashion as a man\u201d), might lure on the Prince of this world to a conflict, to whom offering His flesh as a bait, His divinity underneath might catch him and hold him fast with its hook, through the shedding of His immaculate blood. For He alone Who knows no stain of sin hath destroyed the sins of all, of those, at least, who have marked the door-posts of their faith with His blood. As, therefore, if a fish seizes a baited hook, it not only does not take the bait off the hook, but is drawn out of the water to be itself food for others, so He Who had the power of death seized the body of Jesus in death, not being aware of the hook of Divinity inclosed within it, but having swallowed it he was caught forthwith, and the bars of hell being burst asunder, he was drawn forth as it were from the abyss to become food for others. Which result the Prophet Ezekiel long ago foretold under this same figure, saying, \u201cI will draw thee out with My hook, and stretch thee out upon the earth: the plains shall be filled with thee, and I will set all the fowls of the air over thee, and I will satiate all the beasts of the earth with thee.\u201d The Prophet David also says, \u201cThou hast broken the heads of the great dragon, Thou hast given him to be meat to the people of Ethiopia.\u201d And Job in like manner witnesses of the same mystery, for he says in the person of the Lord speaking to him, \u201cWilt thou draw forth the dragon with a hook, and wilt thou put thy bit in his nostrils?\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>References:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rufinus. <em>A Commentary on the Apostles\u2019 Creed<\/em>. NPNF 2\/3:550. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. <a href=\"https:\/\/ccel.org\/ccel\/schaff\/npnf203\/npnf203.vi.xiii.xvii.html\">https:\/\/ccel.org\/ccel\/schaff\/npnf203\/npnf203.vi.xiii.xvii.html<\/a>. Accessed March 10, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fisher of Men The object of [the] mystery of the Incarnation &#8230; was that the divine virtue of the Son of God, as though it were a hook concealed beneath the form and fashion of human flesh (He being, as the Apostle Paul says, \u201cfound in fashion as a man\u201d), might lure on the Prince of this world to a conflict, to whom offering His flesh as a bait, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[217],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-22014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rufinus","tag-incarnation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1301,"url":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/lactantius-on-the-incarnation\/","url_meta":{"origin":22014,"position":0},"title":"Lactantius On the Incarnation","author":"Nemo","date":"January 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Two Advents of Christ \u201cI saw,\u201d [Daniel] said, \u201cin a vision of the night, and, behold, one like the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven, and He came even to the Ancient of days. 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