15. Now how it is that we are in Him through
the sacrament of the flesh and blood bestowed upon us, He Himself
testifies, saying, And the world will no longer see Me, but ye shall
see Me; because I live ye shall live also; because I am in My Father,
and ye in Me, and I in you Ib.
xiv. 19, 20.. If He wished
to indicate a mere unity of will, why did He set forth a kind of
gradation and sequence in the completion of the unity, unless it were
that, since He was in the Father through the nature of Deity, and we on
the contrary in Him through His birth in the body, He would have us
believe that He is in us through the mystery of the sacraments? and
thus there might be taught a perfect unity through a Mediator, whilst,
we abiding in Him, He abode in the Father, and as abiding in the Father
abode also in us; and so we
might arrive at unity with the Father, since in Him Who dwells
naturally in the Father by birth, we also dwell naturally, while He
Himself abides naturally in us also.