ACC ~ John 10 v15a

MUTUAL KNOWING IMPLIES CONSUBSTANTIALITY

THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: There is a different way of knowing. You see, I made them my own, for they are my own possession, [1] … and they recognize me as the master. But then he also said, “Just as the Father knows me, I, also, know the Father,” as if to say, I know the sameness of the nature and of the substance of the Father, being consubstantial [2] with him, and he also knows mine. Nevertheless, I am not like the earlier teachers or like those who are teachers now, which is why I choose the danger on behalf of the sheep. COMMENTARY ON JOHN, FRAGMENT 76.10.14-15. [3]

[1] See 2 Tim 2:19.

[2] This is one of the three places where Theodore (if the Greek of his commentary is deemed reliable) demonstrates his orthodoxy by incorporating the Nicene-Constantinopolitan use of homoousios in his commentary. The other two are in 16:26-27 and 17:3.

[3] ECS 7:81.

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