This article examines how Thomas Aquinas used reduplicative propositions (e.g. ‘Christ suffers insofar as he is a human being’) to explicate Christ's saving mysteries, or events that Christ did and suffered that produced states of affairs only God can do. Following scripture's focus on Christ as one acting subject, Aquinas argued that we should use the adverbial modifiers ‘authoritatively as God and instrumentally as a human being’ to speak well of Christ's saving mysteries as actions of a single subject. This approach is theologically beneficial because it avoids the pitfalls of thinking of Christ's natures as agents.

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用经文解释基督的拯救奥秘的工具：阿奎那论基督教的重复性命题

本文探讨了托马斯·阿奎那如何利用重复性命题（例如“基督在他是人类的范围内遭受苦难”）来阐述基督的救世秘案，或者基督所做和所遭受的事件造成了只有上帝才能做到的事态。在圣经将重点放在作为一个行动主体的基督之后，阿奎那认为我们应该使用状语修饰语“在权威上作为上帝，而在工具上作为人类”来很好地说明基督作为一个单一主体所采取的拯救奥秘。这种方法在神学上是有益的，因为它避免了思考基督作为代理人的本性的陷阱。