XXVIII.

Argument:  Just as it is rightly said that Christ is created, so too it is

rightly said that Christ is a creature.  "Creature" [creatura] does not

signify an action, but a thing produced by a creator, but it is nevertheless

an abstract term.

Response:  We concede to the Fathers, after their fashion, that christ is

called a creature; but because among the untrained "creature" always

signifies something separated from the Creator, this is not well done.  But

when we call Christ a creature, we understand the divine person which assumed

human nature.  Nor is the creature in Christ the subject [suppositum], not

even according to philosophy, but something assumed.  Christ, being created,

is not separated from God.  Therefore he is not a creature in the old sense

of the word.