2 Corinthians 3:18

[Szymon]

What is the meaning of a phrase “into the same image” in 2 Corinthians 3:18? Does that mean that we become “the same” as God? Thanks in advance for an answer.

 

[Vico]

2 Cor 3

18 But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Haydock Commentary

Ver. 18. We all, beholding, [3] &c. i.e. we who have been called to the faith of Christ, have received a greater knowledge; and we hope and believe to be hereafter transformed into the same image, and to be in some measure like unto God, whom we shall see and enjoy, when we pass from the less glory of grace and sanctification in this life, which is the seed of glory, to the state of a more perfect glory and happiness in heaven, says St. Augustine. (Witham)

[3] Ver. 18. St. Augustine, de gloriâ fidei in gloriam speciei, de gloriâ, quâ Filii Dei sumus, in gloriam, quâ similes ei erimus, quoniam videbimus eum sicuti est.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

460 The Word became flesh to make us " partakers of the divine nature ":“For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

1701 … It is in Christ, "the image of the invisible God,"3 that man has been created “in the image and likeness” of the Creator. …

1702 The divine image is present in every man. It shines forth in the communion of persons, in the likeness of the unity of the divine persons among themselves (cf. chapter two ).

 

[Szymon]

Thank You for an answer.