the word, Greater, te Meion eyes. Eπadn 25 underfood here with re- ἀπὸ ἢ πατρὸς ἡ ἀρχὴ τῷ Spect to Caufality: For, 160, XT Tolo mesov & waSeeing the Son bas bis 0.4, riginal from the Father; word, Father, what else 5 inf, ws aili is dexń. τὸ ἢ παλὴς τί ἄλε 20 onμaiver, in 821 70 Allia 1) Aex & I AUTS HUvTG; Adv. Eunom. libg I. Him that is begotten of him? Τὸ τὸ δὴ λέγειν, ὅτι τὸ τ ανθρωπον νουμλύες i... Say (faith he) that the Fa- av Fę w w ov ther is greater than Chrift confidered in his Human μείζων, ἀληθὲς με 8 μέ Nature, is True indeed, ja de 1: 28 Davμasov, ei but of no great Moment: μCwv aiSpáπε Œεós; 0For what wonder is it, rat. 36. that God fhould be greater than a Man? And the Learned Bp Bull: What Origen (faith he) affirms in the place before cited, viz. that the Son, even as he is God, planè Catholicum (that is, God of God,) is effe, atque etiam à Patribus, Less than the Father; qui poft Nicænum ConciliThis we shall um Arianam hærefin acerriShow to be very Catho- mè impugnârunt, defenfum lick, and maintained even oftendemus. Defenf by the Fathers after the Sect. 2. cap. 9; §. 12. Council of Nice,who most Quod Origenes in loco citato dicit, Filium etiam quà Deus eft, (hoc eft, Deus ex Deo,) Patre minorem effe; Strongly oppofed the Arian Herefy. And Bp Pearfon: The Father (faith he) is Greater, in reference to the Communication of the Godhead: I know him, faith Chrift, for I am from Him. And because he is from the Father, therefore he is called by those of M the the Nicene Council, in their Creed, 'God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God. The Father is God, but not of God; Light, but not of Light: Chrift is God, but of God; Light, but of Light. Expof. on the Creed, pag. 135, Edit. 4th. 831. Joh. xiv, 31. As the Father gave me Commandment, even fo I do. 832. 833. 834. XV; 9, 10. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you; continue ye in my Love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my Love; even as I have kept my Fathers commandments, and abide in his Love. 15. All things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. me. 21. They know not him that fent 1835. xvi, 5. Now I go my way to him that fent me. 836. 32. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 837. xvii, 1. Father, glorify thy Son, 838. that thy Son alfo may glorify Thee. 2. As thou haft given him Power o ver all Flesh, that he should give eternal Life to as many as Thou hast given him. 839. Job. xvii, 3. And This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only True God, and [that they might know] Jesus Christ whom thou haft fent. 840. 841. 842. See N° 5. 4. I have glorified Thee on Earth; I have finished the Work which thou gavest me to do. 5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the glory which I had with thee before the World was. † See No 607. 6,7,8. I have manifefted thy Name tests unto the Men, which thou gavest me out of the world; Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy Word. Now they have known, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me, are of Thee. For I have given unto Them the Words which Thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known furely that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didnt fend me. 843. 7ob. xvii, 9. but, for Them which Thou haft given me; for they are Thine. 844. 11. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name, those whom thou haft given me. €845. 846. 847. 848. 849. 850. 851. 12. Those that thou gavest me, I have kept. 14. I have given them Thy Word. 18. As Thou haft fent Me into the World, even fo have I alfo fent Them into the World. 21. That the World may believe that Thou haft fent me. 22. And the Glory which thou gavest me, I have given Them. 23. And that the World may know that Thou haft fent me; and haft loved Them, as thou haft loved Me... 24. Father, I will that they alfo whom Thou haft given me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold my Glory which Thou haft given me; For thou lovedit me before the foundation of the World. 852. 25. And these have known, that Thou haft fent me. 71 1853. Job. xviii, 11. The Cup which my Father hath given me, fhall I not drink it? € 854. 855. $ XX, 17. I afcend unto My Father and your Father, and to † My God and your God. + See N° 991.. 21. As fo fend I you, 856. Acts i;6,7. Lord, wilt thou at This Time 857. reftore? It is not for you to know the Times or the Seafons, which the Father has put in his own Power. ii, 22. Jefus a man approved [Gr. a wodedayusov, fet forth] of God among you by Miracles, which God did by Him. 858. 24. Whom God hath raised up. 859. 32. This Jefus, hath God raised 860.00 33. Being by the right hand of. God exalted, [Gr. exalted by the right hand of God,] and having received of the Father &c. |