to the Image, gives Honour to the King For the Image, is his Likeness and Resemblance. I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.] That is; there is fo ftrict and perfect an Union and Communion between the Father and the Son, that whosoever feeth My Works (faith our Saviour,) feeth my Fathers Werks; and whofoever heareth My Words, heareth His. The Words that I speak unto you, (ver. 10.) I Speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doth the Works. The like Expreffion is frequently used in other places. Ver. 20th of This chapter; At that day ye shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in Me, and I in you. Ch. vi, ver. 56. He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood, dwelleth in Me, and 1 in Him; [To which, fome MSS add, even as the Father dwelleth in Me, and I in the Father.] Chap. xv, ver. 4, Abide in Me, and I in you. Ch. xvii, ver. 11, Holy Father, keep through thine own Name, those whom thou haft given me; that They may be One, as We are. Ver. 21, That they All may be One, as Thon, Father, art in Me, and 1 in Thee; that They also may be One in Vs; that the World may believe that thou haft fent me. Ver. 22, And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given Them; that They may be One, even as We are One. Ver. 23, I in Them, and Thou in Me, that They may be made perfect in One, and that the World may know that Thou haft fent me, and haft loved Them as thou haft loved Me. Ver. 26, That the Love wherewith thou haft loved Me, may be in Them, and I in Them. 1 Joh. iii, 24, He that keepeth his Commandments, dwelleth in Him, and He in Him. 1 Joh. iv, 15, Whosoever shall confefs that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in Him, and He in God. And ver. 16, God is Love; and He that dwelleth in Love, dwelleth in God, and God in Him. Divines generally fuppofe, that thefe Words, [1 am in the Father, and the Father in Me, have fome fecret Reference to the Manner of Chrifts Metaphyfical Existence with the Father, explained Joh. i, 1. Which though it may poffibly be True, yet the parallel places now-cited fhow the other to be the principal and more natural Meaning of the Words. See N° 594, & 609. 601. Joh. xiv; 13, 14. And whatsoever ye fhall ask in my Name, That will I do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye fhall ask any thing in my Name, I bawill do it. 602. 603. 20. I am in my Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 604. 605. See No 600. XV; 23, 24. He that hateth Me, hateth my Father alfo. now they have both † seen and hated both Me and my Father. † See N• 600. xvi, 15. All things that the Fa ther hath, are mine. I 19. Jefus knew that they were defirous to ask him. 606. 30. Now are we fure that thou knoweft knoweft all things, and needest not that any man fhould ask thee: By This we believe, that thou cameft forth from God. 607. Joh. xvii, 5. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own felf, with the Glory † which I had with thee before the World was. メ 608. 609. The Socinian Interpretation of this paffage, is very harsh and unnatural; who understand it to fignify only the Glory which Chrift had in the Foreknowledge and Prædetermination of God. The plain and literal Meaning of the Words, is that which has been before expreffed, No 535. 10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in Them. II. that they may be One, tas We are. Ἐι δέ τις ἐκ τέτων πέ wadhoε), μn an avlo̟μολέμου πρὸς τὸς ἀναιρένε τας δύο και πιςάσεις σας τέρα ὑὶν ἐπιςησάτω Teegi yovisnodτW Tò, Ἦν ἢ πάντων ἢ πιςευσάν. τωνἡ καρδίαν ἡ ψυχὴ μία ἵνα θεωρήσῃ τὸ, Ἐγὼ κι ὁ πατὴρ Evo. Contra Celfum,lib. 8. Heart and of One Soul; and then he will understand And presently after: Θρησκευομίν εν τ πατέ ege 610. 611. We worship (faith he) ༩་ eg Tns andeias, à Työv τῆς ἀληθείας, κ the Father of Truth, and nav, cura déo Tỷ the Son who is the Truth, being indeed Two things in Subfiftence ; but in 4. greement, and Confent, and Sameness of Will, they are One. 612. x 613. υποςάσει πράγματα, ἓν τῇ ὁμονοίᾳ καὶ τῇ συμφωνία και τη ταυλότητι 3 βολήμα 16. Ibid. See fome other Senfes of thefe Words, No 594 & 600. as Job. xvii, 21. That They All may be One, 22, 23. That They may be One, even as We are One. I in Them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One. See N° 594 600 & 609. 24. For thou lovedst me † before the Foundation of the World. + See No 607. xxi, 17. Lord, thou knoweft all things. 614. Acts i, 24. Which knoweft the Hearts of all Men. Though it be ambiguous whether thefe Words are spoken of Chrift or of God the Father, yet it feems I rather rather more natural in this place to understand them of Chrift; in whom dwelleth the Knowledge, as well as the Power of the Father. Thus Rev. ii, 23, I am He which fearcheth the Reins and Hearts. See N° 690, 669. 615. Acts iii; 14, 15. 616. な the Holy One, and the Juft, the Prince of Life. vii; 30, 31, 32. There appeared to him an * Angel of the Lord in a flame of Fire in a Bush; * And the Voice of the Lord came unto him, faying, I am the God of thy Fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Ifaac, and the God of Jacob. It is the unanimous Opinion of All Antiquity, that This Angel who faid, I am the God of thy Fathers, was Chrift, (the Angel of the Covenant, Mal. iii, 1; the Angel of Gods prefence, Ifai. lxiii, 9; and in whom the Name of God was, Exod. xxiii, 21;) fpeaking in the Perfon of the Father. Our Chrift, (fays Juftin Martyr,) converfed with Mofes out of the Bal, in the Appearance of Fire: And Mofes recieved great ·Strength, from Christ who Spake to him in the Appearance of Fire. And again: The Jews (faith he) are juftly reproved, for imagining that Ἐν ιδέᾳ πυρὸς ἐκ βάτε πος ωμίλησεν αυτῳ ὁ ἡμέ δύναμιν ἰσχυραν έλαβε αυτό περα Χριςός * λαλήσαντα αυτῷ, ἐν idty Tugs, Xess. Fustin. Apol. 1. Ἰδαῖοι ἐν ἡγησάμβυοι αεί τ πατέρα όλων λελαλη κέναι τω Μωσεί, λαλή σαντα |