{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030855.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030855.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030855.htm","text":"6. Next there follows, \u201cAnd in Christ Jesus, His Only Son, Our Lord.\u201d \u201cJesus\u201d is a Hebrew word meaning \u201cSaviour.\u201d \u201cChrist\u201d is so called from \u201cChrism,\u201d i.e. unction. For we read in the Books of Moses, that Auses, the son of Nave, 3269 when he was chosen to lead the people, had his name changed from \u201cAuses\u201d to \u201cJesus,\u201d to shew that this was a name proper for princes and generals, for those, namely, who should \u201csave\u201d the people who followed them. Therefore, both were called \u201cJesus,\u201d both the one who conducted the people, who had been brought forth out of the land of Egypt, and freed from the wanderings of the wilderness, into the land of promise, and the other, who conducted the people, who had been brought forth from the darkness of ignorance, and recalled from the errors of the world, into the kingdom of heaven.\n\u201cChrist\u201d is a name proper either to High Priests or Kings. For formerly both high priests and kings were consecrated with the ointment of chrism: but these, as mortal and corruptible, with material and corruptible ointment. Jesus is made Christ, being anointed with the Holy Spirit, as the Scripture saith of Him \u201cWhom the Father hath anointed with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven.\u201d 3270 And Isaiah had prefigured the same, saying in the person of the Son, \u201cThe Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me, He hath sent Me to preach good tidings to the poor.\u201d 3271\nHaving shewn them what \u201cJesus\u201d is, Who saves His people, and what \u201cChrist\u201d is, Who is made a High Priest for ever, let us now see in what follows, of Whom these things are said, \u201cHis only Son, our Lord.\u201d Here we are taught that this Jesus, of whom we have spoken, and this Christ, the meaning of whose name we have expounded, is \u201cthe only Son of God\u201d and \u201cour Lord.\u201d Lest, perchance, you should think that these human names have an earthly significance, p. 546 therefore it is added that He is \u201cthe only Son of God, our Lord.\u201d For He is born One of One, because there is one brightness of light, and there is one word of the understanding. Neither does an incorporeal generation degenerate into the plural number, or suffer division, where He Who is born is in no wise separated from Him Who begets. He is \u201conly\u201d (unique), as thought is to the mind, as wisdom is to the wise, as a word is to the understanding, as valour is to the brave. For as the Father is said by the Apostle to be \u201calone wise,\u201d 3272 so likewise the Son alone is called wisdom. He is then the \u201conly Son.\u201d And, although in glory, everlastingness, virtue, dominion, power, He is what the Father is, yet all these He hath not unoriginately as the Father, but from the Father, as the Son, without beginning and equal; and although He is the Head of all things, yet the Father is the Head of Him. For so it is written, \u201cThe Head of Christ is God.\u201d 3273\nThat is Joshua the son of Nun. It does not appear what passage is referred to.\n545:3270 545:3271\nIsa. 61:1, Luke 4:18Isa. lxi. 1. Comp. Luke iv. 18\n546:3272 546:3273","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus.: Section 6. And in Christ Jesus, His Only Son, Our Lord","type":"page"}