Christ distinguishes the two Resurrections. 305 V. 28. denier of the resurrection of bodies may find nothing to quibble JOHN upon: albeit the meaning already shines out brightly. Above, when it was said, The hour cometh, He added, and now is: but now, The hour cometh, He hath not added, and now is. But let Him deprive them of all handles, all crotchets' and 1 claviquibbles of misinterpretation, all nooses of ensnaring; let calumHim by the open truth break and burst them all. culas Marvel niarum 22-25. not at this: for the hour cometh, in the which all that are in the graves. What more evident? what more express? bodies are in the graves; souls are not in the graves, either of just or of unjust. The just man's soul was in Abraham's Luke 16, bosom, the unjust man's soul was in hell, in torment: in the grave, neither the one nor the other. Above when He said, The hour cometh, and now is-I beseech you, give heed: ye know, brethren, that the bread of the belly even is with labour got at; how much more the bread of the mind! With labour ye stand and hear; yea, but with greater, we stand and speak: if we labour for you, ought ye not to labour with us for your own selves?-I say, above when He said, The hour cometh, and added, and now is, what went He on to say? When the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. He said not,' All the dead shall hear, and they that hear shall live:' for by the dead he meant to be understood the unjust. And do all the unjust give ear to, or obey, the Gospel? The Apostle openly saith, But not all obey the Gospel. Yet they that hear, shall live; Rom. because all that obey, or give ear to, the Gospel, will pass unto life eternal by faith: yet not all give ear, and this is now. Aye, but in the end, All that are in the graves, that is, just and unjust, shall hear His voice, and come forth. How is it He forbore to say, and shall live? Why, all will come forth, but not all will live. In that, namely, which He said above, And they that hear shall live, He meant us to understand, how that in the hearing itself, in the giving ear or obeying, is a life eternal and blessed which not all will have that shall come forth from the graves. And therefore in this place, both by the mention of the graves and by the expression of a coming forth from the graves, we openly understand a resurrection of bodies. 10, 16. 18. All shall hear His voice, and shall come forth. And v. 28,29. X 306 The Form of Man will be seen by just and unjust: HOMIL. where the judgment, if all shall hear and all come forth? It XIX. is, as it were, all confusion: I see nothing of discrimination. Certainly, Thou hast received power of judging, because Thou art Son of Man; lo, there wilt Thou be in the judg ment: there will the bodies rise again: concerning the judgment itself tell us somewhat, that is, concerning the discriminating of bad and good. Well, hear this also: They that have done good, unto resurrection of life; they that have done evil, unto resurrection of judgment. Above, when He spake of resurrection of minds and souls, made He any discrimination? No: but all that hear, will live, because by hearing, i. e. giving ear, obeying, they will live. But by rising and coming forth from the graves, not all will go to life eternal, but they that have done well: they that have done ill, to judgment. For here He hath put judgment for punishment. Both there will be a sundering, and it will be not such as now is. For now also we are severed, not by place, but by characters, affections, desires, faith, hope, charity. We live along with the unjust; howbeit, not all one and the same life: in secret we are sundered, in secret severed; as grain on the floor, not as grain in the barn. There is both a severing of the grain on the floor, and a blending: a severing, while stripped of the husk; a blending, while not yet winnowed. Then, there will be au open severing, as in manners, so also in life; as in wisdom, so also in bodies. They will go, they that have done well, to live with the angels of God: they that have done ill, to be tormented with the devil and his angels. And then will pass away the form of a servant. For unto this end had He presented Himself, that He should execute judgment: after judgment He will go hence, will lead with Him the body whose Head He is, and will offer the kingdom unto God'. • 1 Cor. 15, 24. Cum tradiderit regnum Deo et Patri. " i. e. all the just, in whom the Mediator between God and man, the Man Jesus Christ, now reigneth while they live by faith, He shall bring to the reality, to the vision which the Apostle calleth, face to face: therefore the meaning of, When He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, is, as if it had been said, When He shall have brought them that believe to the open beholding of God even the Father.'. When therefore He shall have delivered up the kingdom. . . . i. e. have brought the believers, for whom He now intercedeth, to open beholding of God the Father... thenceforth will He no more intercede for us. Therefore He saith, The time cometh that I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, &c. (John 16, 25-28.)" S. Aug. de Trin. i. 16, 21. The Form of God, in the Beatific Vision. 307 V. 29. 46. 3. 6. Then will be plainly seen that Form of God which could not JOHN be seen by the unjust, to whose vision the form of a servant must needs be exhibited. He saith also elsewhere thus: These shall go into everlasting burning, (of certain on the Mat. 25, left hand;) but the just into life eternal: of which in another place He saith, This is life eternal, that they may know John17, Thee, the One True God, and Whom Thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. Then will He be there seen, Who, being in the Phil. 2, form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: then will He shew Himself even as He hath promised to shew Himself to them that love Him. For, he that loveth John14, Me, saith He, keepeth My commandments; and he that' loveth Me, shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and shew Myself unto him. To whom He then spake, them was He present withal: but they saw the form of a servant : the form of God they did not see. He was bringing them on His own beast' to the inn to be put under cure; there, being healed, they will see; because, saith He, I will shew Myself unto him. How is He shewn equal to the Father? While He saith unto Philip, He that seeth Me, seeth My ib. 9. Father also. 21. 19. I cannot of Myself do any thing: as I hear, I judge; v. 29. · and My judgment is just. Because we might else have said to Him, Thou wilt judge, and the Father will not judge, because He hath given all judgment to the Son; not, therefore, in accordance with the Father wilt Thou judge,' He hath adjoined, I cannot of Myself do any thing: as I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just; because I seek not My will, but His will that sent Me. Certainly the Son quickeneth whom He will. He seeketh not His own will, but His will that sent Him. Not Mine, i. e. Mine own proper will; not Mine, the Son of Man's; not Mine, to resist God. Men do their own will, not God's, when they do what they will, not what God bids: but when they do in such sort what they will, that they nevertheless follow God's will, they do not their own will, albeit they do what they will to do. With good will do thou what thou art bidden, Luke 10, 34. S. Aug. Quæst. Ev. 2, 19. Jumentum ejus est caro in qua ad nos venire dignatus est. Im poni jumento, est in ipsam Incarna- 308 How Christ sought not His own Will. HOMIL. SO shalt thou both do what thou willest to do, and not do thine own will, but His that biddeth. XIX. 20. What then? As I hear, so I judge. The Son heareth, and the Father sheweth unto Him, and the Son seeth the Father doing. These matters likewise we had deferred, to handle them somewhat more searchingly as our strength should serve, that is, if having finished the Lesson we should have time and strength to spare. Should I say that I am able to go on speaking, haply ye are not able to go on hearing. Again, haply, in your eagerness to hear, ye may say, 'We can.' Better it is, then, that I confess my infir mity, that I am now of weariness not able to speak longer, than that, when ye have taken full enough, I should continue to pour into you what ye cannot well digest. Therefore touching this promise which I had put off until to-day, if there should be time to spare, hold me, with the Lord's assistance, your debtor for to-morrow. HOMILY XX. JOHN v. 19. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son cannot of Himself do any thing, but what He seeth the Father doing: for what things soever the Father doeth, these same also doeth the Son in like manner. 23. 1. THE words of our Lord Jesus Christ, above all, those recorded by John the Evangelist, who not without cause lay in the Lord's bosom, but to drink the secrets of His John 13, higher wisdom, and, what by loving he had himself drunk in, by evangelizing to indite the same to others, are so secret and profound of understanding, that they trouble all who are wrong-hearted, and exercise all who are righthearted. Wherefore, give heed, my beloved, to these few which have been read. Let us see, if in any way we can, by His gift and His aid, Who hath willed His words to be recited to us which were at that time heard and put in writing that they should now be read, what meaneth that ye have now heard Him say, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son cannot of Himself do any thing, but what He seeth the Father doing: for what things soever the Father doeth, these same also doeth the Son in like manner. 2. Now whereof this discourse arose, ye need to be put in mind in regard of what lies before this present lesson, where the Lord had cured a certain person among those who lay in the five porches of that Pool of Solomon, and said to him, Take up thy bed, and go into thine house. John 5, Now this He had done on the sabbath: whereat the Jews, a Ms. Bodl. in sinu Domini Dei, ' in the bosom of the Lord God.' 8. |