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623 By his loving obedience to the
Father, ‘unto death, even death on a cross’
(Phil 2:8), Jesus fulfils the atoning mission (cf. Is
53:10) of the suffering Servant, who
will ‘make many righteous; and he shall bear their
iniquities’ (Is 53:11; cf
RomS:19). Paragraph 3. Jesus Christ Was Buried 624 ‘By the grace of God’ Jesus tasted
death ‘for every one’.459 In his plan of
salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only
between the time he expired on the cross
and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the
dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into
hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ,
lying in the tomb,~6’ reveals God’s great
brings peace to the whole universe.~6~
Christ in the tomb in his body 625 Christ’s stay in the tomb constitutes the
real link between his passible state before Easter and
his glorious and risen state today. The same person of the
‘Living One’ can say, ‘I died, and behold I
am alive for evermore’ :465
God [the Soni did not impede death from separating his
soul from his body according to the necessary order of
nature, but has reunited them to one another in the
Resurrection, so that he hi mself might be, in his
person, the meeting pointfor death and l~~fe, by
arresting inhimselfthe decomposition of nature produced by
death and so becoming the source of reunion for the
separated parts.~66 626 Since the
‘Author of life’ who was killed~6~ is the same
‘living one [who has] risen’,~68 the
divine person of the Son of God
ated from each other by death:
By the fact that at Christ’s death his soul was
separated from his flesh, his one person is not itself
divided into two persons; for the human body and soul of
Christ have existed in the same way from the beginning of
his earthly existence, in the divine person of the Word;
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