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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." For the conjunction suffers the two no longer to be two, but makes them both one. Now mark again, how he proceeds by means of the bare terms, conducting his accusation in the names of the harlot and of Christ. Wherefore he saith, "He that is joined to a harlot is one body; but he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit." For such an one becomes thenceforth Spirit, although a body envelope him. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
See how by the very names of the harlot and of Christ he continues and intensifies the accusation. He says that "he who is joined to the Lord" becomes nothing other than "spirit," since he does nothing carnal — that is, he becomes spiritual. For union with the Lord grants him the sanctification of the Spirit. In these words he also showed how the faithful become members of Christ.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly he proves the minor saying: But he who is united to the Lord, namely, by faith and charity, is one spirit with him, namely, because he is united to Him in a spiritual, not a bodily, unity. Hence it says in Rom (8:9): "Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him," and in Jn (17:21): "That they may be one in us, as we are one," namely by a connection of the Spirit. …
Bernard of Clairvaux
Living in the Spirit of the Son, let such a soul recognize herself as a daughter of the Father, a bride or even a sister of the Son, for you will find that the soul who enjoys this privilege is called by either of these names. Nor will it cost me much to prove it, the proof is ready to hand. They are the names by which the Bridegroom addresses her: "I come into my garden, my sister, my bride." She is his sister because they have the one Father; his bride because joined in the one Spirit. …
Bonaventure
When a worthy admission has come about together with a holy perception, then the soul is rapt in God, that is, in the beloved. "My Lover belongs to me and I to Him; He browses among the lilies," for the soul already feels the union and is made one spirit with God: "he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." And this is the highest thing in the soul: it makes it abide in heaven.
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