The Superior Nature of Christ
If all created nature worships Christ—for through the angels' designation he signifies a nature superior in reason, just as it was once said in some passage concerning the angels: 'Sit at my right hand' (Ps 110:1); and he is above this—and the scriptures speak of worship through creation, not looking up, saying, 'looking into heaven, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars and all the cosmos of heaven, having gone astray, you will worship them' (Jer 51:41). Since worshiping these is forbidden, so also for the other creatures, even if any should happen to be highly ascended. As has been said before, it is fitting to be confirmed that it is not a creature but the Creator who is Christ, even if through us he united to himself the created flesh having received a rational and spiritual soul, and thus he is worshiped as God by all the creation (Heb 1:6).
To all belongs time, and an opportune time to every single thing under the heaven.
Greek
Fragmentum in epistulam ad Hebraeos 1,6 Εἰ πᾶσα ἡ γενητὴ φύσις προσκυνεῖ τῷ Χριστῷ–διὰ γὰρ τῆς τῶν ἀγγέλων προσηγορίας τὴν ὑπέρτερον λογικὴν σημαίνει φύσιν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν τῷ τίνι γὰρ τῶν ἀγγέλων εἴρηκέν ποτε· κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν μου; καὶ ὑπεράνω ταύτης ἐστὶν αὐτός–καὶ προσκυνεῖν ὁ λόγος τῶν γραφῶν κτίσματι ἀπεῖπεν, μὴ ἀναβλέψας, λέγων, εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, καὶ ἰδὼν τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην καὶ τοὺς 45 ἀστέρας καὶ πάντα τὸν κόσμον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πλανηθεὶς προσκυνήσῃς αὐτοῖς. ὡς δὲ τούτοις προσκυνεῖν κεκώλυται, οὕτω καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις κτίσμασι, κἄν τινα ὑπεραναβεβηκότα τυγχάνῃ. ὡς καὶ ἔμπροσθεν εἴρηται, διαβεβαιοῦσθαι προσήκει οὐ κτίσμα ἀλλὰ κτίστην εἶναι τὸν Χριστόν, εἰ καὶ δι' ἡμᾶς ἥνωσεν ἑαυτῷ τὴν κτιστὴν σάρκα ἐτυχωμένην ψυχῇ λογικῇ τε καὶ νοερᾷ, καὶ οὕτω δὲ προσκυνούμενος ὡς θεὸς ὑπὸ πάσης τῆς κτίσεως. 65lem τοῖς πᾶσιν χρόνος, καὶ καιρὸς τῷ παν-τὶ πράγματι ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν. 1
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Explore how early Christians understood Christ's divinity through creation and angels in this insightful commentary.
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