ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON "THE SACRED HEART. " [To THE EDITOR OP
THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,— Until to-day I have been unable to see the note appended by you to my letter of last week.
Your courtesy will, I am sure, find room for these few words in your next number.
The distinction drawn by F. Guiron in his correspondence with Dr. Nicholson between "Deans facere " and "Dei facere " was this :—
The former is "to make a God" of a thing or person, which, if I can understand him, Dr. Nicholson understands by the word deify,"—how, being Christian, I do not know. Bat aliquid Del fae,ere," F. Guiron rightly explains, is to make anything, of or belonging to God,—" proprium Dei." " Quando Sancti Patres docent humanam naturam in Christcs deificatam ease, imprimis illud expressum volunt, quod human& natura facia est' natura Dei Verbi, ut Deus sit homo." Such is Catholic doctrine, as you will see in " Franzelin, De Verb°. Incarnate," sect. iii., cap. v., p. 319.
The Humanity became "Caro Dei," "facts eat humanitas and was therefore Deified.
This sense F. Guiron asserts throughout, and never for a moment either changed or withdrew.—I am, Sir, &c.,
± HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster.
Downside, October 1.
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