{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030664.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030664.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030664.htm","text":"Chapter XVII.\u2014Sundry August Titles, Descriptive of Deity, Applied to the Son, Not, as Praxeas Would Have It, Only to the Father.\nThey more readily supposed that the Father acted in the Son\u2019s name, than that the Son acted in the Father\u2019s; although the Lord says Himself, \u201cI am come in my Father\u2019s name;\u201d 7979 and even to the Father He declares, \u201cI have manifested Thy name unto these p. 613 men;\u201d 7980 whilst the Scripture likewise says, \u201cBlessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord,\u201d 7981 that is to say, the Son in the Father\u2019s name. And as for the Father\u2019s names, God Almighty, the Most High, the Lord of hosts, the King of Israel, the \u201cOne that is,\u201d we say (for so much do the Scriptures teach us) that they belonged suitably to the Son also, and that the Son came under these designations, and has always acted in them, and has thus manifested them in Himself to men. \u201cAll things,\u201d says He, \u201cwhich the Father hath are mine.\u201d 7982 Then why not His names also? When, therefore, you read of Almighty God, and the Most High, and the God of hosts, and the King of Israel, the \u201cOne that is,\u201d consider whether the Son also be not indicated by these designations, who in His own right is God Almighty, in that He is the Word of Almighty God, and has received power over all; is the Most High, in that He is \u201cexalted at the right hand of God,\u201d as Peter declares in the Acts; 7983 is the Lord of hosts, because all things are by the Father made subject to Him; is the King of Israel because to Him has especially been committed the destiny of that nation; and is likewise \u201cthe One that is,\u201d because there are many who are called Sons, but are not. As to the point maintained by them, that the name of Christ belongs also to the Father, they shall hear (what I have to say) in the proper place. Meanwhile, let this be my immediate answer to the argument which they adduce from the Revelation of John: \u201cI am the Lord which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty;\u201d 7984 and from all other passages which in their opinion make the designation of Almighty God unsuitable to the Son. As if, indeed, He which is to come were not almighty; whereas even the Son of the Almighty is as much almighty as the Son of God is God.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Sundry...","type":"page"}