{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/210/2100219.htm","path":"chr/ecf/210/2100219.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/210/2100219.htm","text":"The sentence of the Judge is set forth, the counterpleas of the opposers are considered, and the finality of the sentence, from which there is no appeal, proved.\n123. What verdict do we look for from Christ? That do I know. Do I say, what verdict will He give? Nay, He hath already pronounced sentence. We have it in our hands. \u201cLet all,\u201d saith He, \u201chonour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, Who hath sent Him.\u201d 2072\n124. If the sentence please you not, appeal to the Father, cancel the judgment that the Father hath given. Say that He hath a Son Who is unlike Him. He will reply: \u201cThen have I lied, I, Who said to the Son, \u2018Let us make man in Our image and likeness.\u2019\u201d 2073\n125. Tell the Father that He hath created p. 240 the Son, and He will answer: \u201cWhy, then, hast thou worshipped One Whom thou thoughtest to be a created being?\u201d\n126. Tell Him that He hath begotten a Son Who is inferior to Himself, and He will reply: \u201cCompare Us, and let Us see.\u201d\n127. Tell Him that you owed no credence to the Son, whereto He will answer: \u201cDid I not say to thee, \u2018This is My well-beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased: hear ye Him\u2019?\u201d 2074 What mean these words \u201chear ye Him,\u201d if not \u201cHear Him when He saith: \u2018All things that the Father hath are Mine\u2019\u201d? 2075 This did the apostles hear, even as it is written: \u201cAnd they fell upon their faces, and were greatly afraid.\u201d 2076 If they who confessed Him fell to the earth, what shall they do who have denied Him? But Jesus laid His hand upon His apostles, and raised them up\u2014you He will suffer to lie prone, that ye may see not the glory ye have denied.\n128. Let us look to it, then, forasmuch as whom the Son condemneth, the Father condemneth also, and therefore let us honour the Son, even as we honour the Father, that by the Son we may be able to come to the Father.\nS. John v. 23.\n239:2073 240:2074\nS. Matt. xvii. 5.\n240:2075\nS. John 16:15, John 17:10.\n240:2076\nS. Matt. xvii. 6.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. X: Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons.: Chapter XIV. The sentence of the Judge is set forth, the counterpleas of the opposers are considered, and the finality of the sentence, from which there is no appeal, proved.","type":"page"}