91. Furthermore He said, “to My God and your
God,” because although He and the Father are One, and the Father
is His Father by possession of the same nature, whilst God began to be
our Father through the office of the Son, not by virtue of nature, but
of grace—still He seems to point us here to the existence in
Christ of both natures, Godhead and Manhood,—Godhead of His
Father, Manhood of His Mother, the former being before all things, the
latter derived from the Virgin. For the first, speaking as the
Son, He called God His Father, and afterward, speaking as man, named
Him as God.