Nor in the case of the soul of the Lord do we
speak of counsel or choice, seeing that He had no part in
ignorance. For, although He was of a nature that is not cognisant
of the future, yet because of His oneness in subsistence with God the
Word, He had knowledge of all things, and that not by grace, but, as we
have said, because He was one in subsistence Max., Dial.
cum Pyrrh.. For He Himself was both God and
Man, and hence He did not possess the will that acts by
opinion διὸ οὐδὲ
γνωμικὸν
εἶχε
θέλημα. or
disposition. While He did possess the natural and simple will
which is to be observed equally in all the personalities of men, His
holy soul had not opinion γνωμήν. (or,
disposition) that is to say, no inclination opposed to His divine will,
nor aught else contrary to His divine will. For opinion (or,
disposition) differs as persons differ, except in the case of the holy
and simple and uncompound and indivisible Godhead v. infr.,
lib. iii. ch. 14.. There, indeed, since the
subsistences are in nowise divided or separated, neither is the object
of will divided. And there, since there is but one nature, there
is also but one natural will. And again, since the subsistences
are unseparated, the three subsistences have also one object of will,
and one activity. In the case of men, however, seeing that their
nature is one, their natural will is also one, but since their
subsistences Or,
personalities. are separated
and divided from each other, alike in place and time, and disposition
to things, and in many other respects, for this reason their acts of
will and their opinions are different. But in the case of our
Lord Jesus Christ, since He possesses different natures, His natural
wills, that is, His volitional faculties belonging to Him as God and as
Man are also different. But since the subsistence is one, and He
Who exercises the will
is one, the object of the will, Text,
θελητόν, as given by
Faber. Variant, θελητικόν. that is,
the gnomic will τὸ
γνωμικὸν
θέλημα, the will of
individual opinion, or, the dispositional will., is also one,
His human will evidently following His divine will, and willing that
which the divine will willed it to will.