{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/210/2100209.htm","path":"chr/ecf/210/2100209.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100209.htm","text":"The omnipotence of the Son of God, demonstrated on the authority of the Old and the New Testament.\n34. Seeing, then, that the Son of God is true and good, surely He is Almighty God. Can there be yet any doubt on this point? We have already cited the place where it is read that \u201cthe Lord Almighty is His Name.\u201d 1942 Because, then, the Son is Lord, and the Lord is Almighty, the Son of God is Almighty.\n35. But hear also such a passage as you p. 228 can build no doubts upon: 1943 \u201cBehold, He cometh,\u201d saith the Scripture, \u201cwith the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they which pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of Him. Yea, amen. I am Alpha and Omega, saith the Lord God, Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d 1944 Whom, I ask, did they pierce? For Whose coming hope we but the Son\u2019s? Therefore, Christ is Almighty Lord, and God.\n36. Hear another passage, your sacred Majesty,\u2014hear the voice of Christ. \u201cThus saith the Lord Almighty: After His glory 1945 hath He sent me against the nations which have made spoil of you, forasmuch as he that toucheth you is as he that toucheth the pupil of His eye. For lo, I lay my hand upon them which despoiled you, and I will save you, and they shall be for a spoil, which made spoil of you, and they shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent Me.\u201d Plainly, He Who speaks is the Lord Almighty, and He Who hath sent is the Lord Almighty. By consequence, then, almighty power appertains both to the Father and to the Son; nevertheless, it is One Almighty God, for there is oneness of Majesty.\n37. Moreover, that your most excellent Majesty may know that it is Christ which hath spoken as in the Gospel, so also in the prophet, He saith by the mouth of Isaiah, as though foreordaining the Gospel: \u201cI Myself, Who spake, am come,\u201d 1946 that is to say, I, Who spake in the Law, am present in the Gospel.\n38. Elsewhere, again, He saith: \u201cAll things that the Father hath are Mine.\u201d 1947 What meaneth He by \u201call things\u201d? Clearly, not things created, for all these were made by the Son, but the things that the Father hath\u2014that is to say, Eternity, Sovereignty, Godhead, which are His possession, as begotten of the Father. We cannot, then, doubt that He is Almighty, Who hath all things that the Father hath (for it is written: \u201cAll things that the Father hath are Mine\u201d).\nNo doubts, because (1) the meaning of the passage is plain; (2) it is taken from an inspired Book.\n228:1944 228:1945\nThe quotation is from Zech. ii. 8\u2014\u201cafter His glory.\u201d Lat.\u2014\u201cPost honorem.\u201d LXX.\u2014\u1f40\u03c0\u03af\u03c3\u03c9 \u03b4\u03cc\u03be\u03b7\u03c2. Vulg.\u2014\u201cPost gloriam.\u201d A.V.\u2014\u201c After the glory.\u201d\n228:1946\nIsa. lii. 6. The Vulg. agrees with St. Ambrose. The A.V. has\u2014\u201cThey shall know in that day that I am He that doth speak: behold, it is I.\u201d R.V. margin\u2014\u201chere I am.\u201d\n228:1947\nS. John xvi. 25.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X: Dogmatic...","type":"page"}