We find[422] the Stoic idea of passibilityand impassibility, although not exactly that of passion and action.
With the growing sensitiveness of the social consciousness, the problem of suffering and of sin presses increasingly, and itself almost compels the assertion of the passibility of God.
The very truth that comes by Jesus Christ may be said to be summed up in the passibility of God.
It would seem, also, that any vital defense of the Fatherhood of God, required by the social consciousness, involves further the frank admission of the passibility of God, whether it has the look of an ancient heresy or not.
Unwillingness to attribute passibility to God, coupled with the desire to remain in some sort trinitarians, forced many of the monophysites into the Sabellian position.
This belief, firmly held in all that it involves, would have kept them from attributing passibility to the Godhead, and ultimately have neutralised the errors of their Christology.
Although Christ was a comprehensor and therefore blessed as to the enjoyment of God, nevertheless He was, at the same time, a wayfarer, as regards the passibility of nature, to which He was still subject.
Thirdly, in order to show us an example of patience by valiantly bearing up against human passibility and defects.
Now passibility and mortality of body were in Christ.
And, consequently, we must not say simply that He partook of the effect of His priesthood but with this qualification-- in regard to the passibility of the flesh.
And hence perfection of virtue, which is in accordance with right reason, does not exclude passibility of body; yet it excludes the fomes of sin, the nature of which consists in the resistance of the sensitive appetite to reason.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passibility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
