II. The Doctrine of the States of Christ.
(De statibus exinanitionis et exaltationis.) The Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments present Christ in a dual state. First in a state of humiliation, which includes a thirty-three year life on earth in human development and human humiliation and finally even death on the cross and the grave, then in
a state of exaltation that follows the humiliation and cancels the humiliation, which includes not only the resurrection from death, but also the enthronement to world dominion and the appointment as Head of the Church, as well as the visible return in divine glory to the Last Judgmen What these two states are, more precisely, what humiliation and exaltation consist of—humiliation in partial non-use, exaltation in full use of the divine glory according to human nature—had always to be explained in the description of the unio personalis. It is simply impossible to describe the unio personalis of God and man and to stand firm against the multiform error without continuing to take into account the humiliation and exaltation of Christ, because both the state of humiliation and the state of exaltation argue against the scriptural teaching of the unio personalis. What Scripture reports about the humiliation of Christ, for example, his increasing wisdom, his ignorance of the Last Day, his request to pass the cup and complete his death, should not fit in with the divinity of Christ, at least not with the communication of divine attributes and works to the human nature. °) And what Scripture tells us about the exaltation of Christ, especially his elevation to the throne of world dominion and his presence in the Church even according to the human nature, should by no means be compatible with the true humanity of Christ. °® All these objections had already to be discussed in the previous one. If here follows a special section on the states of Christ, it can only be a matter of recapitulating what was said earlier under the terms "humiliation" and "exaltation" for the sake of clarity. As for the seemingly tiresome repetition of the same things from different points of view, we can take comfort with Chemnitz in t 674)
passages in the New Testament by Christ himself Luke 24:26: &5e1 2a0eiv tov Xptotov kai siceAOetv sic tiv 66Eav avdtod. Paul in Phil. 2:6-11: savtov exév@oev Loperyy SobAov AaBov KTA. - 516 Ka 0 Sedc avTOV VIEPVYaOEV
280-281 ] his writing consoles de duabus naturis. °’ A number of details which have not yet been discussed are presented in the section "The individual parts of Humiliation and Exaltation".