104. If, again, you seek to pervert the
sense of these words, “I will make Thine enemies Thy
footstool,” I answer that the Father also bringeth to the Son
such as the Son raiseth up and quickeneth. For “No
man,” saith Christ, “can come to Me, except the Father,
Which hath sent Me, draw him, and I will raise him up at the last
day.” S. John vi. 44. And you say
that the Son of God is subject
by reason of weakness—the Son, to
Whom the Father bringeth men that He may raise them up in the last
day. Seemeth this in your eyes to be subjection, I pray you,
where the kingdom is prepared for the Father, and the Father bringeth
to the Son and there is no place for perversion of words, since the Son
giveth the kingdom to the Father, and none is preferred before
Him? This
prerogative—viz. of sitting at the right hand of the
Father—in itself is sufficient to exclude any dishonourable
suspicion that the Son is a subject and servant. (Hurter.) For inasmuch as the Father rendereth
to the Son, and the Son, again, to the Father, here are plain proofs of
love and regard: seeing that They so render, the One to the
Other, that neither He Who receiveth obtaineth as it were what was
another’s, nor He That rendereth loseth.