| Et ecce unus accedens, ait illi: Magister bone, quid boni faciam ut habeam vitam æternam? Qui dixit ei: Quid me dicis bonum? Nemo bonus nisi unus Deus. Arguta responsio: non quod non esset bonus ipse, cum esset Filius Dei, et ipse Deus. Sed ita Judaeos revocat per istum, ut intelligant et ipsum Deum, cum sit ipse Deus, boni Dei Filius, et nihil aliud quam bonus Deus. Quia bonus Deus Pater, bonus Deus Filius, bonus Deus et Spiritus Sanctus. Et non tres dii, sed unus bonus Deus. Ac per hoc non dixit, nemo bonus nisi solus Pater, sed nemo bonus , nisi solus Deus; et quod istae tres personae non sunt nisi unus Deus. Verumtamen Judaicus populus unius Dei habens cognitionem, nec Filium Dei, nec Deum trinum in personis, unquam intelligere voluit. Hac ratione Christus laudem sibi oblatam ab eo repulit, quia non quasi Deum bonum veneratus est, sed quasi hominem, bonum eum dicebat. Unde quantum ad Judaeos spectat, qui unum Deum coeli colebant, et Christum Dei Filium non cognoscebant, nemo erat bonus nisi unus Deus. Apud fideles autem sicut unus Deus Pater est bonus, sic et Unigenitus Deus bonus, atque Spiritus sanctus unus Deus bonus, non tres siquidem boni, sed unus Deus bonus, sanctus et justus, et omnia illa quae de Deo essentialiter dicuntur. Idcirco non a deitatis se natura exclusit, sed ipsam naturam bonam Dei utique laudavit. Bonitas ergo in natura est, et non in vitio mendacii; quia omnis homo mendax. Natura vero Dei ipse Filius est, quia ex Deo Patre natus est, et hoc est quod Pater. Et ideo quod ille non credebat adolescens, Christus adjunxit, ut se Dei Filium, non solum bonum ex parte Magistrum, verum etiam Dominum bonum crederet ex toto. Sanctus Paschasius Radbertus Corbeiensis, Expositio In Evangelium Matthaei, Lib IX, Cap XIX Source: Migne PL 120.659a-d |
And behold a man came to Him and said, 'Good teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life? He said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.' 1 A wise answer, and not because He is not God, when He is the Son of God and He is God. But He speaks to the Jews through this, that they might understand that He is God when He is God, the Son of the good God and nothing else than the good God. Because God the Father is good, and God the Son is good, and God the Holy Spirit is good, and there are not three gods, but the good God is one. And here He did not say, 'No one is good but the Father alone,' but 'No one is good but God alone.' And there are not three persons unless they are one God. However though the Jewish people had the knowledge of the one God, they were never willing to understand the Son of God, nor the persons of the triune God. For this reason Christ rejects the praise that is offered by the man, because when he called Him good he did not honour Him as the good God but as a man. Whence that no one was good unless the one God very much refers to the the Jews who worshipped the one God of heaven and did not know Christ the Son of God. But with the faithful, just as the one God the Father is good, so even the Only Begotten is good, and the Holy Spirit is the one good God, not as if there are three gods, but it is the one God who is good, holy and righteous, and everything which it is proper to say about God. Therefore He did not exclude Himself from the nature of the Deity here but He praised that same good nature of God. Therefore goodness is in His nature, and not in the defect of a lie, because 'every man is a liar.' 2 But the nature of God is the Son, because He is born from God the Father, and this is what the Father is. Therefore what the young man did not believe, Christ added, that He is the Son of God, so that he should not think Him good by the office of teaching only, but that he should deem Him the good Lord in full. Saint Paschasius Radbertus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 9, Chapter 19 1 Mt 19.16-17 2 Ps 115.11 |
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