{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/107/1070025.htm","path":"chr/ecf/107/1070025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/107/1070025.htm","text":"Upon the discourses delivered yesterday and the day before, follows the Gospel lesson of to-day, which we must endeavor to expound in due course, not indeed proportionably to its importance, but according to our ability: both because you take in, not according to the bountifulness of the gushing fountain, but according to your moderate capacity; and we too speak into your ears, not so much as the fountain gives forth, but so much as we are able to take in we convey into your minds,\u2014the matter itself working more fruitfully in your hearts than we in your ears. For a great matter is treated of, not by great masters, nay, rather by very small; but He who, being great, for our sakes became small, gives us hope and confidence. For if we were not encouraged by Him, and invited to understand Him; if He abandoned us as contemptible, since we were not able to partake His divinity if He did not partake our mortality and come to us to speak His gospel to us; if He had not willed to partake with us what in us is abject and most small,\u2014then we might think that He who took on Himself our smallness, had not been willing to bestow on us His own greatness. This I have said lest any should p. 145 blame us as over-bold in handling these matters, or despair of himself that he should be able to understand, by God\u2019s gift, what the Son of God has deigned to speak to him. Therefore what He has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand, He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked.\n2. Lo, what these secrets of His words are, consider well. \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, Whoso heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath eternal life.\u201d Surely we are all striving after eternal life: and He saith, \u201cWhoso heareth my word, and believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life.\u201d Then, would He have us hear His word, and yet would He not have us understand it? Since, if in hearing and believing is eternal life, much more in understanding. But the action of piety is faith, the fruit of faith understanding, that we may come to eternal life, when there will be no reading of Gospel to us; but after all pages of reading and the voice of reader and preacher have been removed out of the way, He, who has at this time dispensed to us the gospel, will Himself appear to all that are His, now present with Him with purged heart and in an immortal body never more to die, cleansing and enlightening them, now living and seeing how that \u201cin the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.\u201d Therefore let us consider at this time who we are, and ponder whom we hear. Christ is God, and He is speaking with men. He would have them to apprehend Him, let Him make them capable; He would have them see Him, let Him open their eyes. It is not, however, without cause that He speaks to us, but because that is true which He promises to us.\n3. \u201cWhoso heareth my words,\u201d saith He, \u201cand believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.\u201d Where, when do we come from death to life, that we come not into judgment? In this life there is a passing from death to life; in this life, which is not yet life, there is a passing hence from death unto life. What is that passing? \u201cWhoso heareth my words,\u201d He said, \u201cand believeth Him that sent me.\u201d Observing these, thou believest and passest. And does a man pass while standing? Evidently; for in body he stands, in mind he passes. Where was he, whence he should pass, and whither does he pass? He passes from death to life. Look at a man standing, in whom all that is here said may happen. He stands, he hears, perhaps he did not believe, by hearing he believes: a little before he did not believe, just now he believes; he has made a passage, as it were, from the region of unbelief to the region of faith, by motion of the heart, not of the body, by a motion into the better; because they who again abandon faith move into the worse. Behold, in this life, which, just as I have said, is not yet life, there is a passing from death to life, so that there may not be a coming into judgment. But why did I say that it is not yet life? If this were life, the Lord would not have said to a certain man, \u201cIf thou wilt come into life, keep the commandments.\u201d 445 For He saith not to him, If thou wilt come into eternal life; He did not add eternal, but said only life. Therefore this life is not to be named life, because it is not a true life. What is true life, but that which is eternal life? Hear the apostle speaking to Timothy, when he says, \u201cCharge them that are rich in this world, not to be high-minded, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us all things richly to enjoy; let them do good, be rich in good works, ready to distribute, to communicate.\u201d Why does he say this? Hear what follows: \u201cLet them lay up in store for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold of the true life.\u201d 446 If they ought to lay up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, in order to lay hold of the true life, surely this in which they were is a false life. For why shouldest thou desire to lay hold of the true, if thou hast the true already? Is the true to be laid hold of? There must then be a departing from the false. And by what way must be the departing? Whither? Hear, believe; and thou makest the passage from death into life, and comest not into judgment.\n4. What is this, \u201cand thou comest not into judgment\u201d? And who will be better than the Apostle Paul, who saith, \u201cWe must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may there receive what he has done in the body, whether it be good or evil\u201d? 447 Paul saith, \u201cWe must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ;\u201d and darest thou promise to thyself that thou shalt not come into judgment? Be it far from me, sayest thou, that I should dare promise this to myself. But I believe Him that doth promise. The Saviour speaks, the Truth promises, Himself said to me, \u201cWhoso heareth my words, and believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and makes a passage from death unto life, and shall not come into p. 146 judgment.\u201d I then have heard the words of my Lord, and I have believed; so now, when I was an unbeliever, I became a believer; even as He warned me, I passed from death to life, I come not into judgment; not by my presumption, but by His promise. Does Paul, however, speak contrary to Christ, the servant against his Lord, the disciple against his Master, the man against God; so that, when the Lord saith, \u201cWhoso heareth and believeth, passeth from death to life,\u201d the apostle should say, \u201cWe must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ\u201d? Otherwise, if he comes not into judgment who appears before the judgment-seat, I know not how to understand it.\n5. The Lord our God then reveals it, and by His Scriptures puts us in mind how it may be understood when judgment is spoken of. I exhort you, therefore, to give attention. Sometimes judgment means punishment, sometimes it means discrimination. According to that mode of speech in which judgment means discrimination, \u201cwe must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ that\u201d a man \u201cmay there receive what things he has done in the body, whether it be good or ill.\u201d For this same is a discrimination, to distribute good things to the good, evil things to the evil. For if judgment were always to be taken in a bad sense, the psalm would not say, \u201cJudge me, O God.\u201d Perhaps some one is surprised when he hears one say, \u201cJudge me, O God.\u201d For man is wont to say, \u201cForgive me, O God;\u201d \u201cSpare me, O God.\u201d Who is it that says, \u201cJudge me, O God\u201d? Sometimes in the psalm this very verse even is placed in the pause, 448 to be given out by the reader and responded by the people. Does it not perhaps strike some man\u2019s heart so much that he is afraid to sing and to say to God, \u201cJudge me, O God\u201d? And yet the people sing it with confidence, and do not imagine that they wish an evil thing in that which they have learned from the divine word; even if they do not well understand it, they believe that what they sing is something good. And yet even the psalm itself has not left a man without an insight into the meaning of it. For, going on, it shows in the words that follow what kind of judgment it spoke of; that it is not one of condemnation, but of discrimination. For saith it, \u201cJudge me, O God.\u201d What means \u201cJudge me, O God, and discern my cause from an unholy nation\u201d? According to this judgment of discerning, then, \u201cwe must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.\u201d But again, according to the judgment of condemnation, \u201cWhoso heareth my words,\u201d saith He, \u201cand believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but makes a passage from death to life.\u201d What is \u201cshall not come into judgment?\u201d Shall not come into condemnation. Let us prove from the Scriptures that judgment is put where punishment is understood; although also in this very passage, a little further on, you will hear the same term judgment put for nothing else than for condemnation and punishment. Yet the apostle says in a certain place, writing to those who abused the body, what the faithful among you know; and because they abused it, they were chastised by the scourge of the Lord. For he says to them, \u201cMany among you are weak and sickly, and deeply sleep.\u201d For many therefore even died. And he went on: \u201cFor if we judged ourselves, we should not be judged by the Lord;\u201d that is, if we reproved ourselves, we should not be reproved by the Lord. \u201cBut when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.\u201d 449 There are therefore those who are judged here according to punishment, that they may be spared there; there are those who are spared here, that they may be the more abundantly tormented there; and there are those to whom the very punishments are meted out without the scourge of punishment, if they be not corrected by the scourge of God; that, since here they have despised the Father that scourgeth, they may there feel the Judge that punisheth. Therefore there is a judgment into which God, that is, the Son of God, will in the end send the devil and his angels, and all the unbelieving and ungodly with him. To this judgment, he who, now believing, passes from death unto life, shall not come.\n6. For, lest thou shouldest think that by believing thou art not to die according to the flesh, or lest, understanding it carnally, thou shouldest say to thyself, \u201cMy Lord has said to me, Whoso heareth my words, and believeth Him that sent me, is passed from death to life: I then have believed, I am not to die;\u201d be assured that thou shalt pay that penalty, death, which thou owest by the punishment of Adam. For he, in whom we all then were, received this sentence, \u201cThou shalt surely die;\u201d 450 nor can the divine sentence be made void. But after thou hast paid the death of the old man, thou shalt be received into the eternal life of the new man, and shalt pass from death to life. Mean p. 147 while, make the transition of life now. What is thy life? Faith: \u201cThe just doth live by faith.\u201d 451 The unbelievers, what of them? They are dead. Among such dead was he, in the body, of whom the Lord says, \u201cLet the dead bury their dead.\u201d 452 So, then, even in this life there are dead, and there are living; all live in a sense. Who are dead? They who have not believed. Who are living? They who have believed. What is said to the dead by the apostle? \u201cArise, thou that sleepest.\u201d But, quoth an objector, he said sleep, not death. Hear what follows: \u201cArise, thou that sleepest, and come forth from the dead.\u201d And as if the sleeper said, Whither shall I go? \u201cAnd Christ shall give thee light.\u201d 453 Christ having enlightened thee, now believing, immediately thou makest a passage from death to life: abide in that to which thou hast passed, and thou shalt not come into judgment.\n7. Himself explains that already, and goes on, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you.\u201d In case, because He said \u201cis passed from death to life,\u201d we should understand this of the future resurrection, and willing to show that he who believes is passed, and that to pass from death to life is to pass from unbelief to faith, from injustice to justice, from pride to humility, from hatred to charity, He saith now, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is.\u201d What more evident? \u201cAnd now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.\u201d We have already spoken of these dead. What think we, my brethren? Are there no dead in this crowd that hear me? They who believe and act according to the true faith do live, and are not dead. But they who either do not believe, or believe as the devils believe, trembling, 454 and living wickedly, confessing the Son of God, and without charity, must rather be esteemed dead. This hour, however, is still passing. For the hour of which the Lord spoke will not be an hour of the twelve hours of a day. From the time when He spoke even to the present, and even to the end of the world, the same one hour is passing; of which hour John saith in his epistle, \u201cLittle children, it is the last hour.\u201d 455 Therefore, is now. Whoso is alive, let him live; whoso was dead, let him live; let him hear the voice of the Son of God, who lay dead; let him arise and live. The Lord cried out at the sepulchre of Lazarus, and he that was four days dead arose. He who stank in the grave came forth into the air. He was buried, a stone was laid over him: the voice of the Saviour burst asunder the hardness of the stone; and thy heart is so hard, that Divine Voice does not yet break it! Rise in thy heart; go forth from thy tomb. For thou wast lying dead in thy heart as in a tomb, and pressed down by the weight of evil habit as by a stone. Rise, and go forth. What is Rise, and go forth? Believe and confess. For he that has believed has risen; he that confesses is gone forth. Why said we that he who confesses is gone forth? Because he was hid before confessing; but when he does confess, he goes forth from darkness to light. And after he has confessed, what is said to the servants? What was said beside the corpse of Lazarus? \u201cLoose him, and let him go.\u201d How? As it was said to His servants the apostles, \u201cWhat things ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.\u201d 456\n8. \u201cThe hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.\u201d From what source shall they live? From life. From what life? From Christ. How do we prove that the source is Christ the life? \u201cI am,\u201d saith He, \u201cthe way, the truth, and the life.\u201d 457 Dost thou wish to walk? \u201cI am the way.\u201d Dost thou wish not to be deceived? \u201cI am the truth.\u201d Wouldest thou not die? \u201cI am the life.\u201d This saith thy Saviour to thee: There is not whither thou mayest go but to me; there is not whereby thou mayest go but by me. Therefore this hour is going on now, this act is clearly taking place, and does not at all cease. Men who were dead, rise; they pass over to life; at the voice of the Son of God they live; from Him they live, while persevering in the faith of Him. For the Son hath life, whence He has it that they that believe shall live.\n9. And how hath He? Even as the Father hath. Hear Himself saying, \u201cFor as the Father hath life in Himself, so also hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.\u201d Brethren, I shall speak as I shall be able. For these are those words that perplex the puny understanding. Why has He added, \u201cin Himself\u201d? It would suffice to say, \u201cFor as the Father hath life, so also hath He given to the Son to have life.\u201d He added, \u201cin Himself:\u201d for the Father \u201chath life in Himself,\u201d and the Son hath life in Himself. He meant us to understand something in that which He saith, \u201cin Himself.\u201d And here a secret matter is shut up in this word; let there be knocking, that there may be an opening. O Lord, what is this that p. 148 Thou hast said? Wherefore hast Thou added, \u201cin Himself\u201d? For did not Paul the apostle, whom Thou madest to live, have life? He had, said He. As for men that were dead to be made alive, and at Thy word to pass unto life by believing; when they shall have passed, will they not have life in Thee? They shall have life; for I said also a little before, \u201cWhoso heareth my words, and believeth Him that sent me, hath eternal life.\u201d Therefore those that believe in Thee have life; and Thou hast not said, \u201cin themselves.\u201d But when Thou speakest of the Father, \u201ceven as the Father hath life in Himself;\u201d again, when Thou speakest of Thyself, Thou saidst, \u201cSo also hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.\u201d Even as He hath, so gave He to have. Where hath He? \u201cIn Himself.\u201d Where gave He to have? \u201cIn Himself.\u201d Where hath Paul life? Not in himself, but in Christ. Where hast thou, believer? Not in thyself, but in Christ. Let us see whether the apostle says this: \u201cNow I live; but not I, but Christ liveth in me.\u201d 458 Our life, as ours, that is, of our own personal will, will be only evil, sinful, unrighteous; but the life in us that is good is from God, not from ourselves; it is given to us by God, not by ourselves. But Christ hath life in Himself, as the Father hath, because He is the Word of God. With Him, it is not the case that He liveth now ill, now well; but as for man, he liveth now ill, now well. He who was living ill, was in his own life; he who is living well, is passed to the life of Christ. Thou art made a partaker of life; thou wast not that which thou hast received, but wast one who received: but it is not so with the Son of God as if at first He was without life, and then received life. For if thus He received life, He would not have it in Himself. For, indeed, what is in Himself? That He should Himself be the very life.\n10. I may perhaps declare that matter more plainly still. One lights a candle: that candle, for example, so far as regards the little flame which shines there\u2014that fire has light in itself; but thine eyes, which lay idle and saw nothing, in the absence of the candle, now have light also, but not in themselves. Further, if they turn away from the candle, they are made dark; if they turn to it, they are illumined. But certainly that fire shines so long as it exists: if thou wouldst take the light from it, thou dost also at the same time extinguish it; for without the light it cannot remain. But Christ is light inextinguishable and co-eternal with the Father, always bright, always shining, always burning: for if He were not burning, would it be said in the psalm, \u201cNor is there any that can hide himself from his heat?\u201d 459 But thou wast cold in thy sin; thou turnest that thou mayest become warm; if thou wilt turn away, thou wilt become cold. In thy sin thou wast dark; thou turnest in order to be enlightened; if thou turnest away, thou wilt become dark. Therefore, because in thyself thou wast darkness, when thou shalt be enlightened, thou wilt be light, though in the light. For saith the apostle, \u201cYe were once darkness, but now light in the Lord.\u201d 460 When he had said, \u201cbut now light,\u201d he added, \u201cin the Lord.\u201d Therefore in thyself darkness, \u201clight in the Lord.\u201d In what way \u201clight\u201d? Because by participation of that light thou art light. But if thou wilt depart from the light by which thou art enlightened, thou returnest to thy darkness. Not so Christ, not so the Word of God. But how not? \u201cAs the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given also to the Son to have life in Himself;\u201d so that He lives, not by participation, but unchangeably, and is altogether Himself life. \u201cSo hath He given also to the Son to have life.\u201d Even as He hath, so has He given. What is the difference? For the one gave, the other received. Was He already in being when He received? Are we to understand that Christ was at any time in being without light, when Himself is the wisdom of the Father, of which it is said, \u201cIt is the brightness of the eternal light?\u201d 461 Therefore what is said, \u201cgave to the Son,\u201d is such as if it were said, \u201cbegat the Son;\u201d for by begetting He gave. As He gave Him to be, so He gave Him to be life, so also gave Him to be life in Himself. What is that, to be life in Himself? Not to need life from elsewhere, but to be Himself the plenitude of life, out of which others believing should have life while they lived. \u201cHath given Him,\u201d then, \u201cto have life in Himself.\u201d Hath given as to whom? As to His own Word, as to Him who \u201cin the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.\u201d\n11. Afterwards, because He was made man, what gave He to Him? \u201cAnd hath given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of man.\u201d In that He is the Son of God, \u201cAs the Father hath life in Himself, so also hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself;\u201d in that He is the Son of man, \u201cHe hath given Him authority of executing judgment.\u201d This is what I ex p. 149 plained to you yesterday, my beloved, that in the judgment man will be seen, but God will not be seen; but after the judgment, God will be seen by those who have prevailed in the judgment, but by the wicked He will not be seen. Since, therefore, the man will be seen in the judgment in that form in which He will so come as He ascended, for that reason He had said above, \u201cThe Father judgeth not any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.\u201d He repeats the same thing also in this place, when He says, \u201cAnd hath given Him authority of executing judgment, because He is the Son of man.\u201d As if thou wert to say, \u201chath given Him authority of executing judgment.\u201d In what way? When He had not that authority of executing judgment? Since \u201cin the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;\u201d since \u201call things were made by Him,\u201d did He not already have authority of executing judgment? Yes, but according to this, I say, \u201cHe gave Him authority of executing judgment, because He is the Son of man:\u201d according to this, He received authority of judging \u201cbecause He is the Son of man.\u201d For in that He is the Son of God, He always had this authority. He that was crucified, received; He who was in death, is in life: the Word of God never was in death, but is always in life.\n12. Now, therefore, as to a resurrection, perhaps some one of us was saying: Behold, we have risen; he who hears Christ, and believes, and is passed from death to life, also will not come into judgment. The hour cometh, and now is, that whoso heareth the voice of the Son of God shall live: he was dead, he has heard; behold, he doth rise. What is this that is said, that there is to be a resurrection afterwards? Spare thyself, do not hasten the sentence, lest thou hurry after it. There is, indeed, this resurrection which comes to pass now; unbelievers were dead, the unrighteous were dead; the righteous live, they pass from the death of unbelief to the life of faith. But do not thence believe that there will not be a resurrection afterwards of the body; believe that there will be a resurrection of the body also. For hear what follows after the declaration of this resurrection which is by faith, lest any should think this to be the only resurrection, or fall into that desperation and error of men who perverted the thoughts of others, \u201csaying that the resurrection is past already,\u201d of whom the apostle saith, \u201cand they overthrow the faith of some.\u201d 462 For I believe that they were saying to them such words as these: \u201cBehold, when the Lord saith, And he that believeth in me is passed from death unto life;\u201d the resurrection has already taken place in believing men, who were before unbelievers: how can a second resurrection be meant?\u201d Thanks to our Lord God, He supports the wavering, directs the perplexed, confirms the doubting. Hear what follows, now that thou hast not whereof to make to thyself the darkness of death. If thou hast believed, believe the whole. What whole, sayest thou, am I to believe? Hear what He saith: \u201cMarvel not at this,\u201d namely, that He gave to the Son authority of making judgment. I say, in the end of the world, saith He. How in the end? \u201cDo not marvel at this; for the hour cometh.\u201d Here He has not said, \u201cand now is.\u201d In reference to that resurrection of faith, what did He say? \u201cThe hour cometh, and now is.\u201d In reference to that resurrection which He intimates there will be of dead bodies, He said, \u201cThe hour cometh;\u201d He has not said, \u201cand now is,\u201d because it is to come in the end of the world.\n13. And whence, sayest thou, dost thou prove to me that He spoke about the resurrection itself? If thou hear patiently, thou wilt presently prove it to thyself. Let us go on then: \u201cMarvel not at this; for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the graves.\u201d What more evident than this resurrection? A while ago, He had not said, \u201cthey that are in the graves,\u201d but, \u201cThe dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.\u201d He has not said, some shall live, others shall be damned; because all who believe shall live. But what does He say concerning the graves? \u201cAll that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth.\u201d He said not, \u201cshall hear and live.\u201d For if they have lived wickedly, and lay in the graves, they shall rise to death, not to life. Let us see, then, who shall come forth. Although, a little before, the dead by hearing and believing did live, there was no distinction there made: it was not said, The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and when they shall have heard, some shall live, and some shall be damned; but, \u201call that hear shall live:\u201d because they that believe shall live, they that have charity shall live, and none of them shall die. But concerning the graves, \u201cThey shall hear His voice, and come forth: they that have done well, to the resurrection of life; they that have done ill, to the resurrection of judgment.\u201d This is the judgment, that punishment of which He had said a while before, p. 150 \u201cWhoso believeth in me is passed from death to life,\u201d and shall not come into judgment.\n14. \u201cI cannot of myself do anything; as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just.\u201d If as Thou hearest Thou judgest, of whom dost Thou hear? If of the Father, yet surely \u201cthe Father judgeth not any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.\u201d When dost Thou, being in a manner the Father\u2019s herald, declare what Thou hearest? I speak what I hear, because what the Father is, that I am: for, indeed, speaking is my function; because I am the Father\u2019s Word. For this Christ says to thee. Thereupon, of thine. What is \u201cAs I hear I judge,\u201d but \u201cAs I am\u201d? For in what manner does Christ hear? Let us inquire, brethren, I beg of you. Does Christ hear of the Father? How doth the Father speak to Him? Undoubtedly, if He speaks to Him, He uses words to Him; for every one who says something to any one, says it by a word. How doth the Father speak to the Son, seeing that the Son is the Father\u2019s Word? Whatever the Father says to us, He says it by His Word: the Word of the Father is the Son; by what other word, then, doth He speak to the Word Himself? God is one, has one Word, contains all things in one Word. What does that mean, then, \u201cAs I hear, I judge?\u201d Just as I am of the Father, so I judge. Therefore \u201cmy judgment is just.\u201d If Thou doest nothing of Thyself, O Lord Jesus, as carnal men think; if Thou doest nothing of Thyself, how didst Thou say a while before, \u201cSo also the Son quickeneth whom He will\u201d? Just now Thou sayest, Of myself I do nothing. But what does the Son declare, but that He is of the Father? He that is of the Father is not of Himself. If the Son were of Himself, He would not be the Son: He is of the Father. That the Father is, is not of the Son; that the Son is, is of the Father. Equal to the Father; but yet the Son of the Father, not the Father of the Son.\n15. \u201cBecause I seek not my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.\u201d The Only Son saith, \u201cI seek not my own will,\u201d and yet men desire to do their own will! To such a degree does He who is equal to the Father humble Himself; and to such a degree does He extol Himself, who lies in the lowest depth, and cannot rise except a hand is reached to Him! Let us then do the will of the Father, the will of the Son, the will of the Holy Ghost; because of this Trinity there is one will, one power, one majesty. Yet for that reason saith the Son, \u201cI came not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me;\u201d because Christ is not of Himself, but of the Father. 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