“If when the Son asked to be glorified of
the Father He was asking in respect of His Godhead, and not of His
manhood, He asked for what He did not possess. Therefore the
evangelist speaks falsely when he says ‘we beheld His
glory’; John i. 14. and the apostle, in
the words ‘They would not have crucified the Lord of
glory,’ 1 Cor. ii. 8. and David in the
words ‘And the King of glory shall come in.’ Ps. xxiv. 7. It is not therefore an increase of
glory which he asks. He asks that there may be a manifestation of
the œconomy.
i.e. of the incarnation, cf. pp. 7,
12. Again, if He
really asked that the glory which He had before the world might be
given Him of the Father, He asked it because He had lost it. He
would never have sought to receive that of which He was in
possession. But if this was the case, He had lost not only the
glory, but also the Godhead. For the glory is inseparable from
the Godhead. Therefore, according to Photinus, On
Photinus cf. Socrates, Ecc. Hist. ii. 29, and
Theodoret, Hær. Fab. iii. 1, and Epiphanius,
Hær. lxxi. § 2. The question as to what Synod
condemned and deposed him has been thought to have been settled in
favour of that of Sirmium in 349. (D.C.B. iv.
394.) cf. Hefele’s Councils, tr. Oxenham,
ii. 188.
He was mere man. It is then clear that He spoke these words in
accordance with the œconomy of the manhood, and not through
failure in the Godhead.”