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Faith Q&A › My Faith

The last statement that was said concerning Christ, to Him be glory, while He was on the Cross, is that “He gave up the spirit.”37 What spirit was this?

The answer

Christ, being God, took up full humanity, being a spirit and a body. If God had taken the body of a man without taking a spirit, then Christ would have been a redeemer of animals. However, He took a human body and spirit in order to redeem man.

This full humanity (human body and spirit) is referred to as the humanity. Of course, the human spirit is different than the divinity.

This human spirit is what He gave up on the Cross, for there was a separation of the human spirit and the body. The Divinity, however, remains united to both the spirit and the body separately.

His Holiness Pope Tawadros II

Notes

37 Translator’s note: Matt. 27:50; Luke 23:46; John 19:30.

Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 100.

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His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed. Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, Cairo; printed at Saint Mena Monastery Press, Maryut, Egypt. ISBN 978-977-344-149-7.