555. Mat. xi, 27. And † no man 27. And † no man knoweth the 556. * Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, fave the Son, and he to whomfoever the Son will reveal him. + The Incarnation of Chrift, and the Preaching of the Gospel to the Whole World, was a Mystery hid from Ages and from Generations, in the fecret Counfel of God, and which even the Angels themselves defired to look into. This is explained by St John. ch. i, 18. No man bath feen God at any time, The only begotten Son, which is in the Bofom of the Father, he hath declared bim. xii, 6. In this place is One greater than the Temple. 558. 25. And Jesus knew their Thoughts, See No 362, 669. xviii, 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the midst of them. 559. xxviii, 18. All Power in Hea ven and in Earth. 560. 20. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the End of the World. 561. Mar. i, 1. Jefus Chrift, the Son of God. And fo frequently in other places. Mar. 562. Mar. ii, 8. Jefus perceived in his Spirit, that they fo reasoned within themselves, 563. xvi, 20. The Lord working with them. 564. Luke vii; 39, 40. The Pharifee -Spake within himself; 565. 566. And Jefus anfwering, faid unto him, &c. ix, 47. Jefus, perceiving the Thought of their Heart. xxi, 15. I will give you a Mouth and Wisdom. 567. Job.i; 1,2.In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 568. The fame † was in the Beginning with God. Had glory with God before the World was, Joh. xvii, 5. See N° 535. 18. The only-begotten Son: And often in other places. 569. 18. The only-begotten Son, which is in the Bofom of the Father. $70. 29. The Lamb of God, which taketh . away the Sin of the World. 571. 48. Before that Philip called thee, when thou waft under the Fig-tree, I saw thee. Job: 572. Job. ii, 19. Deftroy this Temple, and in three days I will raife it up. 573. 574. 575. See N° 58. 24, 25. Because he knew all men; And needed not that any fhould testify of Man; for he knew what was in Man. See N° 362, 669. Heaven. iii, 13. But He that came down from Nothing can be more unreasonable and groundlefs, than the Socinians Interpretation of this paffage: who feign that Chrift was taken up into Heaven, as Mofes of old into the Mount, to receive his InftruЄtions, and then came down again to preach: Whereas the plain Meaning is, that he was in the Beginning with God, before he was made flesh and came into the World, ch. i, ver. 1, 10, 11, 14. 13. The Son of Man, which is in Heaven. 2 As before, ch. i, 18, which is in the Bofom of the Father. Though the Words are indeed ambiguous, [8 av år Tal sexv, which is (or was) in Heaven.] So ch. ix, 25, OTITUPλòs av, whereas I was blind. But the former Interpretation is more natural. 576. 13. No man hath afcended up to Heaven, but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man which is in Heaven. The Meaning is explained, ch. i, 18, No man hath ·Seen feen God at any Time: The only-begotten Son, which is in the Bofom of the Father, he hath declared him.' 577. Joh.iii, 31. He that cometh from above, is above All. He that cometh from 579 580. 35. The Father All things into his hand. hath given V, 17. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18. But faid alfo that God was his Father, making himself Equal with God. Affuming to himself the Power and Authority of God. It is the fame Accufation with That Other, ch. X, 33, IVe ftone thee for Blafphemy, and because that Thon, being a Man, makeft thy felf God: And Mar. ii, 7, Why doth this Man thus fpeak Blafphemies? Who can forgive Sins, but God only? The Jews, 'tis evident, did not by thefe Expreffions mean to charge Jefus with affirming himself to be the Supreme, Self-exiftent, Independent Deity; nay, nor fo much as with taking upon himself to be a Divine "Perfon at all; but only with affuming to himself the Power and Authority of God. And yet 'tis very reafonable to conceive, that fefus in this place, by calling God his Father in fo abfolute and particular a manner, walleg itov, his Own Father, did intend to hint to his Difciples, what they could not then, but were afterwards to understand, viz. that he was [A] That Word which was in the Beginning with God, and was God, Job, i: The Meaning of which Expreflion, fee in N° 535 wo Tis, probable alfo, that he meant to give them fome Intimation of the fame thing, in that Other place, Mar. ii; 5, 7, 9.75 where he forgives Sins in fo d'Manner: UpOon which, Ireneus makes this Remark: Our Lord, (fays he,) when he for- He was the Word of God, made the Son of Man, and receiving from his Father the Power beof forgiving Sins, because he was Man, ...and because he was God. abfolute Peccata semit hominem quidem curavit, igitur remittens, femet ipfum autem manifeftè oftendit, quis effet. Si enim nemo poteft remittere peccata, nifi folus Deus; remittebat autem hæc Dominus, & curabat homines; manifeftum eft, quoniam ipfe erat Verbum Dei, filius a Patre pohominis factus teftatem remiffionis peccatorum accipiens, quoniam homo, & quoniam Deus. Lib.v, c. 17. 。་ 581. Joh. v; 19. What things foever He[the Fa[ther] doth, thefe alfo doth the Son likewife. 582. 583: 21, 22. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickneth them; even s the Son quickneth whom he will. 10 mgles For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed All Judgment unto the Son. Maes ad bod gad 26. For as the Father hath Life in Himfelf, fo hath he given to the Son to have Life in Himfelf. H Job. |