Father doeth, the same doeth the Son;’ I recognise an equality, hereby I understand, and
comprehend as far as I am able, ‘I and My Father are One.’3777 What meaneth it, that Thou
canst do nothing, but what Thou seest the Father do? What meaneth this?”
13. Peradventure He would say to me, yea say to us all: “Now as to this that I have said,
‘The Son can do nothing, but what He seeth the Father do;’ My ‘Seeing’ how dost thou un-
derstand? My ‘Seeing,’ what is it? Put aside for a while the form of the servant which He
took for thy sake. For in that servant’s form our Lord had eyes and ears in the Flesh, and
that human form was the same figure of a Body, such as we bear, the same outlines of
members. That Flesh had come from Adam: but He was not as Adam. So then the Lord
walking whether on the earth or in the sea, as it pleased Him, as He would, for whatever He
would, He could; looked at what He would; He fixed His eyes, He saw; He turned away His
eyes, and did not see; who followed was behind Him, whoso could be seen, before Him;
with the eyes of His Body, He saw only what was before Him. But from His Divinity nothing
was hid. Put aside, put aside, I say, for a while the form of the servant, look at the Form of
God in which He was before the world was made; in which He was equal to the Father;
hereby receive and understand what He saith to thee, ‘Who being in the form of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God.’3778 There see Him if thou canst, that thou mayest be
able to see what His ‘Seeing’ is.” “In the beginning was the Word.” How doth the Word see?
Hath the Word eyes, or are our eyes found in Him, the eyes not of the flesh, but the eyes of
godly hearts? For, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”3779
14. Christ thou seest Man and God; He doth manifest to thee the Man, God He reserveth
for thee. Now see how He reserveth God for thee, who doth manifest Himself to thee as
Man. “Whoso loveth Me,” saith He, “keepeth My commandments; whoso loveth Me shall
be loved of My Father, and I will love him.”3780 And as if it were asked, “What wilt Thou
give to him whom Thou lovest?” “And I will manifest Myself,” saith He, “to him.” What
meaneth this, Brethren? He whom they saw already, promised that He would manifest
Himself to them. To whom? Those by whom He was seen, or those also by whom He was
not seen? Thus speaking to a certain Apostle, who asked to see the Father, that it might
suffice him, and said, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us” 3781—Then He standing before
this servant’s eyes, in the form of a servant, reserving for his eyes when3782 deified3783 the
3777 John x. 30.
3778 Phil. ii. 6.
3779 Matt. v. 8.
3780 John xiv. 21.
3781 John xiv. 8.
3782 Deificati.
3783 Vid. St. Athanasius, Treatise against Arians, Oxford edit. Nicene Def. ch. iii. 12, § 14 and Disc. 1, ch. xi.
§ 39, p. 336, and note c. Vide St. Augustin, Ps. 49, § 2.
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