Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Chapter IV. The omnipotence of the Son of God, demonstrated on the authority of the Old and the New Testament.
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter IV.
The omnipotence of the Son of God, demonstrated on the
authority of the Old and the New Testament.
34. Seeing, then,
that the Son of God is true and good, surely He is Almighty God.
Can there be yet any doubt on this point? We have already cited
the place where it is read that “the Lord Almighty is His
Name.”1942
Because,
then, the Son is Lord, and the Lord is Almighty, the Son of God is
Almighty.
35. But hear also such a passage as you
can build no doubts
upon:1943
| 1943 No doubts, because
(1) the meaning of the passage is plain; (2) it is taken from an
inspired Book. | “Behold, He cometh,”
saith the Scripture, “with the clouds, and every eye shall see
Him, and they which pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth shall
mourn because of Him. Yea, amen. I am Alpha and Omega,
saith the Lord God, Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, the
Almighty.”1944
Whom, I
ask, did they pierce? For Whose coming hope we but the
Son’s? Therefore, Christ is Almighty Lord, and
God.
36. Hear another passage, your sacred
Majesty,—hear the voice of Christ. “Thus saith the
Lord Almighty: After His glory1945
| 1945 The quotation is
from Zech. ii. 8—“after His
glory.” Lat.—“Post honorem.”
LXX.—ὀπίσω
δόξης.
Vulg.—“Post gloriam.” A.V.—“
After the glory.” | hath He sent
me against the nations which have made spoil of you, forasmuch as he
that toucheth you is as he that toucheth the pupil of His eye.
For lo, I lay my hand upon them which despoiled you, and I will save
you, and they shall be for a spoil, which made spoil of you, and they
shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent Me.” Plainly,
He Who speaks is the Lord Almighty, and He Who hath sent is the Lord
Almighty. By consequence, then, almighty power appertains both to
the Father and to the Son; nevertheless, it is One Almighty God, for
there is oneness of Majesty.
37. Moreover, that your most excellent
Majesty may know that it is Christ which hath spoken as in the Gospel,
so also in the prophet, He saith by the mouth of Isaiah, as though
foreordaining the Gospel: “I Myself, Who spake, am
come,”1946
| 1946 Isa. lii. 6. The Vulg. agrees with St.
Ambrose. The A.V. has—“They shall know in that day
that I am He that doth speak: behold, it is I.” R.V.
margin—“here I am.” | that is to say,
I, Who spake in the Law, am present in the Gospel.
38. Elsewhere, again, He saith:
“All things that the Father hath are Mine.”1947
What meaneth He by “all
things”? Clearly, not things created, for all these were
made by the Son, but the things that the Father hath—that is to
say, Eternity, Sovereignty, Godhead, which are His possession, as
begotten of the Father. We cannot, then, doubt that He is
Almighty, Who hath all things that the Father hath (for it is
written: “All things that the Father hath are
Mine”).E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
