31.
Peter, again, when he healed Aeneas, said: “In the Name of
Jesus of Nazareth, rise and walk.” Acts iii. 6; ix. 34. Not in his own name, but in the
Name of Christ. But “rise” is a command; on the other
hand, it is an instance of confidence in one’s right, See S. Mark xvi. 17, 18. not an arrogant claim to power, and the
authority of the command stood in the effective influence of the Name,
not in its own might. What answer, then, make the Arians?
Peter commands in the Name of Christ,—this on the one hand:
on the other, they will have it that the Son of God did not command,
but requested.