22. For, in this very same discourse in
which He pronounces that His works testify of Him that He was sent of
the Father, and asserts that the Father testifies of Him, that He was
sent from Him, He says, The honour of Him, Who alone is God, ye seek
not St. John v. 44. The usual text of the Greek is
τὴν δόξαν
τὴν παρὰ τοῦ
μόνου θεοῦ,
“the glory that cometh from the only God” (R.V.).. This is not, however, a bare
statement, without any previous preparation for the belief in His unity
with the Father. Hear what precedes it, Ye will not come to Me
that ye may have life. I receive not glory from men. But I
know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves. I am
come in My Father’s name, and ye receive Me not: if another
shall come in His name At the close of
this chapter, Hilary speaks as if these words were, “if another
shall come in His (i.e. the Father’s) name,” though the
Latin “si alius venerit in nomine suo,” is ambiguous and
the Greek, “ἔαν ἄλλος
ἔλθῃ ἐν τῷ
ὀνόματι τῷ
ἰδί& 251·,” quite excludes this
translation.,him ye will
receive. How can ye believe, which receive glory from men, and
the glory of Him, Who alone is God, ye seek not. St. John v. 40–44. He disdains the glory of men,
for glory should rather be sought of God. It is the mark of
unbelievers to receive glory of one another: for what glory can
man give to man? He says He knows that the love of God is not in
them, and pronounces, as the cause, that they do not receive Him coming
in His Father’s name. “Coming in His Father’s
name:” what does that mean but “coming in the name of
God?” Is it not because they rejected Him Who came in the
name of God, that the love of God is not in them? Is it not
implied that He has the nature of God, when He says, Ye will not
come to Me that ye may have life. Hear what He said of
Himself in the same discourse, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the
hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God; and they that hear shall live St. John v. 25..
He comes in the name of the Father: that is, He is not
Himself the Father, yet is in the same divine nature as the
Father: for as Son and God it is natural for Him to come in the
name of the Father. Then, another coming in the same name they
will receive: but he is one from whom men will expect glory, and
to whom they will give glory in return, though he will feign to have
come in the name of the Father. By this, doubtless, is signified
the Antichrist, glorying in his false use of the Father’s
name. Him they will glorify, and will be glorified of him:
but the glory of Him, Who alone is God, they will not seek.