Among Us

Sequitur: Et habitavit in nobis; in nobis, id est in nostra humanitate, vel: in nobis, id est in nostra societate, vel: in nobis, id est in nostra mente. In nostra humanitate habitavit corporaliter, in nostra societate habitavit sacramentaliter, in nostra mente spiritualiter. Habitat ergo Verbum in nostra humanitate; de quo tertio Regum octavo: Dixit Dominus, ut habitaret in nebula, nebula, humanitas assumta, de qua profluxit omnium medicina. Habitat in nostra societate sacramentaliter; de quo Matthaei ultimo: Ego vobiscum sum usque ad consummationem saeculo; et Psalmus: In pace, id est in fratrum concordia, factus est locus eius; in Sion, id est in Ecclesia, habitatio eius. Habitat in nostra mente spiritualiter; Ioannis decimo quinto: Manete in me, et ego in vobis; secundi Machabaeorum decimo quarto: Tu Domine universorum, qui nullius indiges, voluisti, templum habitationis tuae fieri in nobis. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Cap I, Collatio II Source: Here, p537

It follows: 'He dwelt among us.' 1 Among us, that is, in our humanity, or among us, as in our society, or, among us, as in our mind. In our humanity He took up His dwelling bodily, in our society sacramentally, in our mind spiritually. Therefore the Word dwells in our humanity, as in the eighth chapter of the third book of Kings: 'The Lord said that He shall dwell in a cloud,' 2 in the taking up our humanity, from which flowed healing for all. He dwells in our society sacramentally, as in the last chapter of Matthew: 'I am with you until the end of the age,' 3 and in the Psalm: 'In peace,' that is in brotherly concord, 'He made His place, in Sion' that is, in the Church, 'is His habitation.' 4 He dwells in our mind spiritually, as in the fifteenth chapter of John: 'Remain in me as I in you,' 5 and in the fourteenth chapter of the second book of Maccabees: 'You, O Lord of all, who lack nothing, you wished that the temple for your habitation be among us.' 6 Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 1 1 Jn 1.14 2 3 Kings 8.12 3 Mt 20.20 4 Ps 75.2 5 Jn 15.4 6 2 Mac 14.35