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The Judgment committed to the Son, as Man, hath given to the Son; howbeit, the manifest judgment; in JOHN which manifest judgment the Son will judge, because it is He that will appear to them that are to be judged. The Scripture doth more evidently shew us, that it is He which shall appear. On the fortieth day after His resurrection He Acts 1, ascended into heaven, in the sight of His disciples; and the Angelic voice said to them, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This (Jesus) Which is taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as ye have seen Him going into heaven. In what manner saw they Him go? In the flesh, which they touched, which they handled, the scars also of which by touching they proved; in that body, in which He went in and out with them during forty days, manifesting Himself to them in verity, not in any falsity: not a phantom, not a shadow, not a spirit: but even as He said, using no deceit, Feel, and see, that a spirit hath not Lake24, flesh and bones, as ye see Me have. True, that is now a Body worthy of an heavenly habitation, not subject to death, not mutable by the ages of man's life. For not, as It had grown to that age from infancy, so from the age which was that of manhood doth it verge downward to old age: He remains as He ascended, to come unto them to whom, ere He cometh, He willed His word to be preached. So therefore will He come in human form: this shall also the ungodly see; shall see, both they that are set on the right hand; shall see, also they that are separated on the left hand; as it is written, They shall look on Him Whom they pierced. Zech.12, If they shall look on Him Whom they pierced, they shall 10. see the self-same Body which they smote with the spear; 37. the Word cannot be pierced with a spear: that same, then, shall the ungodly be able to see, which they were able to wound. The hidden God in the Body they will not see: after the Judgment, That will be seen by them which shall be on the right hand. This then it is that He saith, The Father judgeth not any, but hath given all judgment to the Son; in that the Son will come manifest to the Judgment, in a human body appearing to men; saying to them on the right, Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive the Kingdom; Mat. 25, saying to them on the left, Go into everlasting fire, which is 34. prepared for the devil and his angels.

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For He must come in the visible form of flesh. HOMIL. 14. Lo, It shall be seen, this Form of Man, by godly and ungodly, by just and by unjust, by believers and by unbe lievers, by them that rejoice and by them that wail, by them that have confidence and by them that have confusion: lo, It shall be seen. When that Form shall have been seen in the Judgment, and the Judgment shall be finished, wherein, it is said, the Father judgeth not any, but hath given all judgment to the Son; for this cause, namely, because the Son will appear in the Judgment in the Form which He hath taken of us: what shall then be? When shall be seen the Form of God, Which all believers thirst to see? when shall be seen That, Which was in the beginning, the Word, God with God, by Which all things were made? when shall be seen that Form of God, of Which the Apostle Phil. 2, saith, Being in the Form of God, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God? For mighty is that Form, wherein is still recognised the equality of the Father and the Son: ineffable It is, incomprehensible, above all to the little ones. When shall It be seen? Lo, on the right hand are the just, on the left are the unjust; the Man, all alike see; the Son of Man, they see; Him Who was pierced, they see; Him Who was crucified, they see; Him the humbled, Him the born of a Virgin, Him the Lamb of the tribe of Judah, they see the Word, God with God, when shall they see? will be the Same then also: but the form of a servant will appear. The form of a servant will be shewn to the servants: the Form of God will be reserved for the sons. Then let the servants be made sons; they that are on the right, let them go to the eternal inheritance promised of old, which the martyrs, albeit not seeing, believed; for the promise of which, they without hesitation shed their blood: let them go thither, and see there. When shall they go thither? Mat. 25, Let the Lord Himself say, So shall those go to everlasting burning, but the righteous into life everlasting.

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15. Lo, He hath named life everlasting. Yea, but hath He told us withal that we shall there see and know the Father and the Son? What if we shall live for ever, but not see that Father and Son? Hear in another place, where He hath named the life eternal, and hath expressed what is life eternal. Fear not: I deceive thee not: not without

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cause have I promised to them that are lovers of Me, saying, JoHN He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is John 14, that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me, shall be loved also 21. of My Father, and I will love him, and shew Myself to him? Let us make answer to the Lord, and say, 'Nay, but, O Lord our God, what great matter is that? what great boon? Wilt Thou shew Thyself to us? Why, even the Jews-can it be that to them Thou didst not shew Thyself? that even they who crucified Thee, did not see Thee? Thou wilt shew Thyself in the Judgment, when we shall stand at Thy right hand: yea, but even those who shall stand at Thy left hand, will they not see Thee? What is it, that Thou wilt shew Thyself to us? Do we not see Thee now while Thou speakest?' He answereth: 'I will shew Myself in the Form of God: ye see now the form of a servant. I will not disappoint thee, O faithful man! believe, that thou shalt see. Thou lovest, and dost not sec: shall very love not bring thee to see? Love; persevere in loving: I will not disappoint,' saith He, thy love, I Who have purified thine heart. For to what end have I made thine heart pure, but that it should be possible for thee to see God? Because, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall Matt. 6, see God. " Yea, but this,' saith the servant as it were dis- 8. puting with the Lord, 'Thou didst not express when Thou saidst, The righteous shall go into life eternal: Thou saidst not, They shall go to see Me in the Form of God, to see the Father with Whom I am equal.' Mark what He hath elsewhere said: And this is life eternal, that they may know John 17, Thee, the One True God, and Whom Thou hast sent, Jesus 3. Christ.

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Quid enim, et Judæis te non de- in fide. monstrasti? non te viderunt et qui crucifixerunt? Ed. Ben. But Ed. Paris 1555 has, Quid enim? et Judæis te demonstrasti. Nonne te viderunt et qui crucifixerunt?

Et modo ergo, post commemoratumn judicium &c. Many Mss. have, Et quomodo ergo post commemoratum judicium &c. Others: Et quomodo? ergo et post &c. BEN. The true reading is shewn by the context a few lines below: Alodo ergo hoc habemus

"The Father hath given all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son as they honour the Father. Such will be the consequence when He shall appear, equal with the Father. But since the Son hath apprised us of this counsel of the Father, therefore even now, before His appearing in coequal Majesty, He must receive equal honour, while even now we hold this in faith, that He is equal with the Father."

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HOMIL. which the Father, not judging any, hath given all to the XXI. Son, what shall be? What follows? That all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. By the Jews, the Father is honoured, the Son despised. For the Son was seen as a servant, the Father was honoured as God. The Son also will appear, equal with the Father, that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. Even now therefore we have this in faith. And let not the Jew say, 'I honour the Father: what have I to do with the Son?' Let Him make answer to him, He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father. Thou liest altogether: thou blasphemest the Son, and dost wrong the Father. For the Father sent the Son: thou despisest Whom He sent: how honourest thou the Sender, who blasphemest the Sent?

17. Lo,' saith some man: the Son is sent; and the Father is greater, because He sent.' Get thee away from the flesh! the old man suggesteth oldness; do thou in the New Man acknowledge newness. Let the New call thee off from the world of time, let Him, the Ancient, Perpetual, Eternal, call hereunto thine understanding. Is the Son less, because the Son is said to have been sent? I hear of sending, not separation. But this,' saith the objector, we see in the affairs of men, that greater is he that sends, than he that is sent.' Yea; but the things of men deceive man: the things of God purge him. Do not fix thy regard upon the things of men, where greater seemeth he that sends, less he that is sent: though indeed even the things of men bear testimony against thee. As, for example, if a person wishes to ask a woman to wife, and by himself is not able to do this, he sends a friend greater than he, to ask for him. And there are many cases where the greater is chosen on purpose to be sent by the lesser. Then why wouldest thou now make a quibble out of this, that the One sent, the Other was sent ? The sun sends his ray, and does not sever it; the moon sends her shining, and does not sever it: a lamp sheds its light, and does not sever it: I see there a sending, and do not see any severing. For if from the things of men thou seekest examples, O heretical vanity, albeit, as I said just now, even the things of men in some examples do argue and convict thee of error; yet mark how different the case is in

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the things of men, from which thou wantest to draw examples Jour for the things of God. The man who sends, himself stays behind, and that person goes who is sent: does the man go with the messenger whom he sends? But the Father Who sent the Son, did not quit the Son. Hear the Lord Himself saying, Behold, the hour will come, that every man shall John16, depart to his own, and ye will leave Me alone: and yet 132. am not alone, because the Father is with Me. How sent He Him with Whom He came? how sent Him Whom He quitted not? In another place He hath said, But the Father Ib. 14, abiding in Me doeth His works". Lo, in Him He is, lo, in Him worketh. The Sender hath not quitted the Sent, because the Sent and the Sender are One.

Pater autem in me manens facit Pater autem in me manens ipse facit opera sua. Hilar. 943. Sed Pater qui opera. in me manet ipse facit opera sua. Vulg.

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