Anf-03 v.ix.xx Pg 5
John x. 30.
and, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”8008 8008
Anf-03 v.ix.xxii Pg 30
Ver. 30.
Here, then, they take their stand, too infatuated, nay, too blind, to see in the first place that there is in this passage an intimation of Two Beings—“I and my Father;” then that there is a plural predicate, “are,” inapplicable to one person only; and lastly, that (the predicate terminates in an abstract, not a personal noun)—“we are one thing” Unum, not “one person” Unus. For if He had said “one Person,” He might have rendered some assistance to their opinion. Unus, no doubt, indicates the singular number; but (here we have a case where) “Two” are still the subject in the masculine gender. He accordingly says Unum, a neuter term, which does not imply singularity of number, but unity of essence, likeness, conjunction, affection on the Father’s part, who loves the Son, and submission on the Son’s, who obeys the Father’s will. When He says, “I and my Father are one” in essence—Unum—He shows that there are Two, whom He puts on an equality and unites in one. He therefore adds to this very statement, that He “had showed them many works from the Father,” for none of which did He deserve to be stoned.8068 8068
Anf-03 v.ix.xxiv Pg 7
John x. 30.
Wherefore? Because “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world”8097 8097
Anf-03 v.ix.xxv Pg 8
John x. 30.
in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number. Run through the whole Gospel, and you will find that He whom you believe to be the Father (described as acting for the Father, although you, for your part, forsooth, suppose that “the Father, being the husbandman,”8117 8117
Anf-03 vi.iv.ii Pg 6
John x. 30.
Nor is even our mother the Church passed by, if, that is, in the Father and the Son is recognized the mother, from whom arises the name both of Father and of Son. In one general term, then, or word, we both honour God, together with His own,8772 8772 “i.e., together with the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Oehler); “His Son and His church” (Dodgson).
and are mindful of the precept, and set a mark on such as have forgotten their Father.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 10
VERSE (30) - Joh 1:1,2; 5:17,23; 8:58; 14:9,23; 16:15; 17:10,21 Mt 11:27; 28:19