On the Price of Our Redemption

Wednesday after the Third Sunday of Lent

On the Price of Our Redemption

For you are bought with a great price. (1 Corinthians 6:20)

Injury or passion of someone is measured out of the dignity of the person: for a king suffers a greater injury if he should be struck on the face than some private person; but the dignity of the person of Christ is infinite, because he is a divine person; therefore whatever passion of his, however tiny it should be, is infinite; therefore whatever passion of his would have sufficed unto the redemption of the human race, even without death.

Bernard says that the smallest drop of the blood of Christ would have sufficed unto the redemption of the human race; yet any drop of the blood of Christ could have been poured out without death; therefore even without death he could have redeemed the human race through some passion.

It must be said that unto purchase two things are required, nam