Anf-03 v.ix.xxiv Pg 8
John xvi. 28.
and, “I am the way: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me;”8098 8098
Anf-03 v.ix.xxii Pg 5
Ver. 33.
When, however, He declares that He is not alone, and uses these words, “but I and the Father that sent me,”8043 8043
Anf-03 v.ix.xxiii Pg 22
John xiii. 1; 3.
Praxeas, however, would have it that it was the Father who proceeded forth from Himself, and had returned to Himself; so that what the devil put into the heart of Judas was the betrayal, not of the Son, but of the Father Himself. But for the matter of that, things have not turned out well either for the devil or the heretic; because, even in the Son’s case, the treason which the devil wrought against Him contributed nothing to his advantage. It was, then, the Son of God, who was in the Son of man, that was betrayed, as the Scripture says afterwards: “Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.”8090 8090
Anf-01 ix.iii.xxix Pg 29
John xiv. 28.
The Father, therefore, has been declared by our Lord to excel with respect to knowledge; for this reason, that we, too, as long as we are connected with the scheme of things in this world, should leave perfect knowledge, and such questions [as have been mentioned], to God, and should not by any chance, while we seek to investigate the sublime nature of the Father, fall into the danger of starting the question whether there is another God above God.3234 3234 [On the great matter of the περιχώρησις, the subordination of the Son, etc., Bull has explored Patristic doctrine, and may well be consulted here. Defens. Fid. Nicænæ, sect. iv.; see also vol. v. 363]
