ACC ~ John 14 v11

UNITY WITH THE FATHER IS RECOGNIZED

HILARY OF POITIERS: His power belonged to his nature, and his working was the exercise of that power. In the exercise of that power, then, they might recognize in him the unity with the Father’s nature. To the extent that anyone recognized him to be God in the power of his nature, that person would come to know God the Father who was present in that mighty nature. The Son, who is equal with the Father, showed by his works that the Father could be seen in him so that when we perceived in the Son a nature like the Father’s in its power, we might know that in Father and Son there is no distinction of nature. ON THE TRINITY 9.52. [1]

[1] NPNF 2 9:173*; CCL 62A:430.

AGAINST THOSE WHO DENY THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: In these words Christ distinctly says that he could never have worked and accomplished those miracles that are unique to the divine nature if he, himself, had not been essentially of the same divine nature. … [Only heretics] whose hearts are devoid of the Holy Spirit make separations between the Father and the Son and assert that the Son is essentially and completely severed from the Father in the way that created things and divine works are separate from God the Father. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 9. [1]

[1] LF 48:265, 286**.

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