Chapter 1 33 training. He professes to have knowledge of God and styles himself a child of the Lord. To us he is the censure of our thoughts, merely to see him is a hardship for us; Because his life is not like that of others, and different are his ways. He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the righteous and boasts of that God is his Father. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him in the end. For if the righteous one is the son of God’s, God will help him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With violence and torture, let us put him to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words God will take care of him. (Wis 2:10–20) The Only Righteous One, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has also been saved but contrary to human logic. In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and with tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. (Heb 5:7–9) God the Father allowed His Only Son die, but not in the same way as those who wanted His annihilation did. The Father permitted His Messiah to suffer because in His death on the Cross He revealed the eternal mystery of begetting the Son in the power of His Spirit. “You are my Son; today I have begotten you” (Heb 5:5). Through the Resurrection, God begot His Son in Christ’s act of dying on the Cross and thus entrusting Himself totally to the Father. This mystery of the inner life of God, in which man is included through the Paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, that is His death and Resurrection, is also the mystery of our salvation. 3.3 The Spirit of the Father and the Son The death and Resurrection of Christ, as one indivisible mystery of our salvation, occurred through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Father and the Son. In a way, the Holy Spirit also defines the mystery
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