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94 The Pelagian Controversy. CHAP. in.
dencies in Pelagianism that our Lord did not stand forth
as the one sole example of perfect obedience in that system ;
but only one, though the principal one, of a succession of
perfect men that had appeared in the world extending
from Abel and Enoch to Simeon and Joseph, the husband
of Mary. 1 An extreme idea of freewill and human perfecti
bility was in truth inconsistent with a sound doctrine of
the Incarnation, not admitting of such a singularity in our
Lord s life and character as that doctrine involved.
The Pelagian, indeed, in retaliation for the charge of
degrading our Lord s humanity, charged his opponents with
unsubstantiating it, and threw back upon them the name
of Apollinarists, as, with a difference of temptation, not as
signing to our Lord the same humanity which other men
have, and so denying His true assumption of our nature.
But it was replied that our Lord took on Him the nature,
but not the sin of man. He even charged his opponents
with Manicheanism, as denying that Christ had assumed
our flesh ; but the same answer was made, that the flesh
was assumed, but not the corruption. He discovered,
again, in the Catholic representation of our Lord s trial in
the flesh, a combination of both heresies modified a semi-
Apollinarism in a soul imperfectly connected with the flesh,
a semi-Manicheanism in a flesh imperfectly connected with
the soul of our Lord. But it was replied, as before, that
the soul of Christ had perfect connection with the flesh,
but not with its corruption. 2
1 De Natura et Gratia, n. 42. deri, pro anima vero ipsam fuisse
Incarnatio Christi justitiae fuit deitatem. Quod posteaquam coepit
forma non prima sed maxima, quia
tarn rationis quam evangelii attestaet
antequam Verbum caro fieret, et tione convelli . . excogitavit aliud
in Prophetis et in multis aliis sane- unde ejus hseresis, quae perdurat
tis fulsere virtutes. Op. Imp. 1. 2. hactenus, nasceretur ; et dixit anic
- 188. mam quidem humanam in Christo
2 Julian : Hie igitur ut adsit fuisse sed sensus in eo corporis non
toto animo lector admoneo : videbit fuisse, atque impassibilem eum proenim
Apollinaristarum haeresim, sed nuntiavit universis extitisse pecca-
eam Manichaei per te
adjectione re- tis. Op, 1. Imp. 4. c. 47.
parari. Apollinaris primo talem Certe hanc vim in disputando
mcarnationem, Christi induxisse Apostolus non haberet si secundum
iertur, ut diceret solum corpus de Manichseos et eorum discipulos
numana substantia assumptum vi- Traducianos, carnem Christi a na-