"Indeed, a culture of safeguarding will only take root if there is a pastoral conversion in this regard among the church's leaders." "All the church's ministers must respect this rule in the way they serve the faithful and they, in turn, must be treated with respect and dignity by those who lead the community," he said. "The principles of respect for the dignity of all, for right conduct and a sound way of life must become a universal rule, independent of people's culture or economic and social condition," he said during an audience May 5 with staff and members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors at the Vatican. 1.VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Safeguarding minors and vulnerable persons must be a priority for everyone in the church, Pope Francis said. Some by the soul understand the natural and unregenerate part in man, and by the spirit the renewed and regenerate part, which though sometimes are not so easily distinguished by men, yet they are by Christ others think the soul designs the inferior faculties, the affections and the spirit the superior ones, the mind and understanding but the apostle's meaning seems to be this, that whereas the soul and spirit are invisible, and the joints and marrow are covered and hid so sharp and quick sighted, and so penetrating is the divine Word, that it reaches the most secret and hidden things of men: and this sense is confirmed by what follows,Īnd is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Ĭhrist knows what is in man he is the searcher of the hearts, and the trier of the reins of the children of men and this will be more apparent at the last day, when he will make manifest the counsels of the heart, and will critically inquire, and accurately judge of them.į15 Onis rerum divin.
The like property Philo the Jew ascribes to the "Logos", or Word he calls him ( tomeuv), "a cutter", and says he cuts and divides all things, even all sensible things, yea, atoms, and things indivisible F15 the apostle seems here to have respect to the several names with which the soul of man is called by the Jews, ( hmvnw xwr vqn), "soul, spirit, and breath" F16 the latter of these, they say, dwells between the other two. Piercing even to the dividing asunder soul and spirit, and of the Jehovah is called a twoedged sword with the Jews F13 and Philo the Jew speaks of the flaming sword of the Logos F14. Or "more cutting than one", by the words of his mouth, by the power of his Spirit, and the efficacy of his grace for his mouth itself is as a sharp sword, and out of it comes forth one, ( Isaiah 49:2 ) ( Revelation 19:13 Revelation 19:15 ) by which he pierces the hearts of men, cuts them to the quick, and lays them open. Or, as it may be better rendered, "living" he has life in himself as God, he is the living God he is the living Redeemer and Mediator, and he lives for ever as man he is the author and giver of life, natural, spiritual, and eternal: and he is powerful, as he appears to be in the creation and sustaining of all things in his miracles and ministrations in the work of man's redemption in the preservation of his people, and in his advocacy and intercession:
This is to be understood of Christ, the essential Word of God for the Word of God was a known name of the Messiah among the Jews ( See Gill on John 1:1) and therefore the apostle makes use of it when writing to them: and the words are introduced as a reason why care should be taken, that men fall not off from the Gospel, because Christ, the author, sum, and substance of it, is the living God, omnipotent and omniscient for not a thing, but a person is spoken of, who is a Judge, and a critical discerner of the secrets of men's hearts: and certain it is, that this Word is spoken of as a person, and is said to be a priest in the following verses to which may be added, that the several things said of the Word exactly agree with Christ: he is "the Word of God" as the word is the birth of the mind, he is the only begotten of the Father he is the Word that spoke for the elect in the council and covenant of grace, and that spoke all things out of nothing in creation he is the Word that has been promised, and spoken of by the prophets from the beginning of the world and is the interpreter of his Father's mind, and our Advocate with the Father: he is For the word of God is quick and powerful
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