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ACC ~ John 5 v21

ONLY GOD CAN RAISE THE DEAD

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: See again in these words clear proof of his equality. For how can he be inferior in anything if he works equally in the reviving of the dead? Or how can he be of another nature and alien to the Father when he is radiant with the same properties? For the power of resurrection, which is alike in both the Father and the Son, is a property of the divine essence. But it is not as though the Father separately and of himself resurrects some, and the Son separately and apart from the Father resurrects others. For since the Son has in himself by nature the Father, the Father does everything and works all things through the Son. But since the Father has the power of resurrection in his own nature, as also does the Son, the Son attributes the power of resurrecting the dead as though accruing to each separately. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2.6. [1]

[1] LF 43:257**.