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    • Chapter LXXI
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    Chapter LXXI.

    Jesus taught us who it was that sent Him, in the words, “None knoweth the Father but the Son;”3398

    3398 Cf. Luke x. 22.

    and in these, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.”3399

    3399 John i. 18.

      He, treating of Deity, stated to His true disciples the doctrine regarding God; and we, discovering traces of such teaching in the Scripture narratives, take occasion from such to aid our theological conceptions,3400

    3400 ὧν ἴχνη ἐν τοῖς γεγραμμένοις εὑρίσκοντες ἀφορμὰς ἔχομεν θεολογεῖν.

    hearing it declared in one passage, that “God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all;”3401

    3401 1 John i. 5.

    and in another, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”3402

    3402 John iv. 24.

      But the purposes for which the Father sent Him are innumerable; and these any one may ascertain who chooses, partly from the prophets who prophesied of Him, and partly from the narratives of the evangelists.  And not a few things also will he learn from the apostles, and especially from Paul.  Moreover, those who are pious He leadeth to the light, and those who sin He will punish,—a circumstance which Celsus not observing, has represented Him “as one who will lead the pious to the light, and who will have mercy on others, whether they sin or repent.”3403

    3403 The text is, τοὺς δὲ ἁμαρτάνοντας ἢ μεταγνόντας ἐλεήσων.  Bohereau would read μὴ μεταγνόντας, or would render the passage as if the reading were ἢ ἁμαρτανόντας, ἢ μεταγνόντας.  This suggestion has been adopted in the translation.

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