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Eustathius is closing his argument that Christ possessed a real human soul, now using the promise to the thief on the cross as proof that Christ's soul, united to the Word, entered paradise while his body still lay in the tomb.
But if through the appearing of Christ the human race is being brought into paradise, and if at the hour he was crucified he foretold that he would bring the thief there that very day while his body still lay cast into the tomb, then it is established that the soul of Christ, dwelling together properly with the Word and God who encompasses all created things at once,brought the kindred soul of the man into paradise.For it is nowhere written that before the resurrection of the holy body the thief's body went ahead and received the promise.It follows, then, to think sensibly that the soul, kindly guiding the kindred soul, since it indeed possessed the greater authority, was bringing the promise to fulfillment that very day, and was leading it into the special inheritance, opening paradise.