Union, coagulation, and fixation

Meaning

Coagulation and union first illustrate how knowledge of distinct divine persons must still recognize one God, not two or three gods. The author says the knower has, as it were, divided and reunited God through wisdom and love: the change concerns apprehension, not literal destruction and reconstruction of divinity. Later fixation or union describes Christ’s soul and spirit joined indissolubly with his body in resurrection and exaltation. The English retains the pairing “fixation or union,” making its explanatory function clear. The two passages should not be compressed into a chemical theory of the Trinity: their objects and theological moments differ, even though material comparison informs both.