There must be so much, or such kind of passibility in him that he will feel toward every thing as it is, and will be diversely affected by diverse things, according to their quality. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
On the first point: although Christ was a comprehensor, and therefore blessed in the enjoyment of God, he was nevertheless a wayfarer in respect of the passibility of nature, while subject to nature. ❋ Unknown (1954)
Consequently, as Christ first had grace in His soul with bodily passibility, and through the Passion attained to the glory of immortality, so we likewise, who are His members, are freed by His ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
He was, however, a wayfarer on account of the passibility of His body, in respect of which He was ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Reply Obj. 1: Although Christ was a comprehensor and therefore blessed as to the enjoyment of God, nevertheless He was, at the same time, a wayfarer, as regards the passibility of nature, to which He was still subject. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
For the _fomes_ of sin, and the passibility and mortality of the body spring from the same principle, to wit, from the withdrawal of original justice, whereby the inferior powers of the soul were subject to the reason, and the body to the soul. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Now passibility and mortality of body were in Christ. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
And hence perfection of virtue, which is in accordance with right reason, does not exclude passibility of body; yet it excludes the _fomes_ of sin, the nature of which consists in the resistance of the sensitive appetite to reason. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Thirdly, in order to show us an example of patience by valiantly bearing up against human passibility and defects. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Reply Obj. 1: All particular defects of men are caused by the corruptibility and passibility of the body, some particular causes being added; and hence, since Christ healed the passibility and corruptibility of our body by assuming it, He consequently healed all other defects. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
And, consequently, we must not say simply that He partook of the effect of His priesthood but with this qualification -- in regard to the passibility of the flesh. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
A very large share of all the virtues have, in fact, an element of passivity, or passibility in them, and without that element they could. not exist. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
Accordingly, when Christ is called the power of God, we are to understand Christ crucified; and then the problem is to conceive how Christ, dying in the weakness of mortality and exhibiting, just there, if we take him as the incarnate manifestation of God, the humblest tokens of passibility and frailty, is yet and there, as being the crucified, the power of God. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
We take our point of departure at the question of passibility in God — is He a being passible, or impassible? ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
To deny that God has such kind of liberty in the Word, might even be a greater infringement of his power, than to maintain his natural passibility. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
There are cases, it is true, where superiority in volume and physical force rather increases than diminishes passibility. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
InPhone links basic interface design for the creation and maintenance of participating users (e.g. truck drivers who could be queried about the passibility of roads; citizens in low-lying areas who could be queried about the presence or absence of standing water), with an incentive program (each participant gets an SMS credit for participating) to make these "human sensor networks" viable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Reply Obj. 3: As was said above (Q. 14, A. 1, ad 2), by the power of the Godhead of Christ the beatitude was economically kept in the soul, so as not to overflow into the body, lest His passibility and mortality should be taken away; and for the same reason the delight of contemplation was so kept in the mind as not to overflow into the sensitive powers, lest sensible pain should thereby be prevented. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
But, in regard to His passibility, He "was made a little lower than the angels," as the Apostle says (Heb. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
It is also fitting to the bad angels -- that is, the demons: for they have something in common with God -- namely, _immortality; _ and something they have in common with men -- namely, _passibility of soul_ and consequently unhappiness; as appears from what Augustine says (De ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
