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of this, that is of the world. 349 {3Jο 10, 16}3He shows that with the Pharisees being cast out, he himself was about to rule over the nations as God and to lead all, both Jews and Greeks, to the knowledge of God, having been proclaimed beforehand by Moses and many prophets as the one who was about to do this. 352 {3Jο 10, 17}3He says he is loved on account of his virtuous action. And it is clearly a virtue to die on behalf of impiety. He speaks humbly because of the incarnation; for he did not now begin to be loved by the Father. 353 {3Jο 10, 18}3The commandment declares the harmony with the Father, even if he speaks humbly. And the commandment is to die for the world. 354 {3Jο 10, }3Since the things spoken were beyond human, they called him demon-possessed. But by hearing these things and being silent, the Lord taught us to bear insults against ourselves meekly. 355 {3Jο 10, 25}3Even if he did not openly call himself Christ, yet by calling himself light, shepherd, way, he signified this; for scripture is accustomed to call the Christ by these names. 356 {3Jο 10, 27}3Since Judas also was one of those given to the Son and he fell into evil, it is shown that men are not evil by nature and in substance, but

are willingly turned. 357 {3Jο 10, 27-30}3The proof of the Lord's sheep is their obedience, and of those who are not his, their disobedience; for to hear here means to obey what is said, and following, he says, is imitation through deeds. He says he gives life, which he also calls eternal, that is, to live in cheerfulness and continual blessedness. But to perish forever means to be subject to unceasing torments. He calls his hand his power and authority, from which no one can snatch those who follow him. Even if as God by nature he gives from himself, yet as man he is said to receive. He says this, that because of the Father's power no one snatches them, not as if he were not sufficient for their keeping, but he says this lest they call him an anti-god; for he said before, that no one snatches them out of my hand, and showing this hand to be one, he says it is sometimes his, sometimes the Father's; for he is the right hand of the Father. Then, lest anyone should think the Son to be less than the Father on account of these words, he added next: I and the Father are one, that is, according to the power, which he also calls a hand. 358 {3Jο 10, 30}3Signifying that the Father and the Son are not one in hypostasis, he said, I and the Father; for they are one in substance, in power, which he also calls a hand, sometimes his own, sometimes the Father's. 359 {3Jο 10, 32}3The works are not mine alone, but of the entire Godhead; for the Father does all things through the Son in the Holy Spirit, and he teaches us to be modest and not to be arrogant, if we receive something from God. 360 {3Jο 10, 33}3Being ignorant that the Son was not about to sojourn in bare divinity, but being incarnate "of the seed of David," they called the correct confession blasphemy. 361 {3Jο 10, 34}3If the Israelites, sordid men, having received this by grace are not accused, how is he who has this by nature rebuked? 362 {3Jο 10, 36}3The Son is said to have been sanctified because he was sent to be slain for the salvation of the world; for holy are the things

set apart for God as a sacrifice. 363 {3Jο 10, 37-38}3 363Since it is impossible to see the substance, from the equality of the works he presents the unchangeableness of the power, through which he says that the Father is known from him and he himself from the Father. 364 {3Jο 10, 38}3I am in the Father and the Father is seen in me according to the sameness of nature and of substance; for the definition of nature is one, even if we conceive of the Holy Trinity in distinct existences; for the Father is not the Son or the Spirit, nor indeed the reverse, even if they are not in separation because of their communion and equality with one another; for even in our case the substance of the one who begets is known and the father in the one begotten according to the principle of substance, but because we are separated by our bodies, we, the many, are no longer "one."

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ταύτης, ὅ ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου. 349 {3Jο 10, 16}3∆είκνυσιν, ὅτι τῶν Φαρισαίων ἐκβαλλομένων αὐτὸς ἔμελλεν ὡς θεὸς ἄρξαι τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ εἰς θεογνωσίαν πάντας ἀγαγεῖν, Ἰουδαίους τε καὶ Ἕλληνας, ὁ ὑπὸ Μωυσέως καὶ πολλῶν προφητῶν προανακηρυχθεὶς τοῦτο μέλλων ποιεῖν. 352 {3Jο 10, 17}3∆ιὰ τὴν ἐνάρετον πρᾶξιν ἀγαπᾶσθαι λέγει ἑαυτόν. ἐναργῶς δὲ ἀρετὴ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὲρ ἀσεβείας. ταπεινῶς λαλεῖ διὰ τὴν ἐνανθρώπησιν· οὐ γὰρ νῦν ἤρξατο ἀγαπᾶσθαι παρὰ τοῦ πατρός. 353 {3Jο 10, 18}3Ἡ ἐντολὴ δηλοῖ τὴν ὁμόνοιαν τὴν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, εἰ καὶ ταπεινῶς λαλεῖ. ἡ δὲ ἐντολή ἐστιν ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὲρ τοῦ κόσμου. 354 {3Jο 10, }3Ἐπειδὴ ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον ἦν τὰ λαλούμενα, ἐκάλουν αὐτὸν δαιμονῶντα. δι' ὧν δὲ ταῦτα ἀκούων ὁ κύριος ἐσίγα, ἐδίδαξεν ἡμᾶς πρᾴως φέρειν τὰς καθ' ἑαυτῶν ὕβρεις. 355 {3Jο 10, 25}3Εἰ καὶ μὴ εἶπεν ἑαυτὸν λευκῶς Χριστόν, ἀλλ' εἰπὼν ἑαυτὸν φῶς, ποιμένα, ὁδόν, ἐσήμανε τοῦτο· τούτοις γὰρ εἴωθεν ἡ γραφὴ τοῖς ὀνόμασι καλεῖν τὸνΧριστόν. 356 {3Jο 10, 27}3Ἐπειδὴ καὶ Ἰούδας εἷς ἦν τῶν δοθέντων τῷ υἱῷ καὶ μετέπεσεν εἰς κακίαν, δείκνυνται οἱ ἄνθρωποι οὐ φύσει καὶ κατ' οὐσίαν ὄντες κακοί, ἀλλ'

ἑκουσίως τρεπόμενοι. 357 {3Jο 10, 27-30}3Ἀπόδειξις τῶν τοῦ κυρίου προβάτων τὸ εὐήκοον, τῶν δὲ ἀλλοτρίων τὸ ἀπειθές· τὸ γὰρ ἀκούειν ὧδε τὸ πείθεσθαι τοῖς λεγομένοις δηλοῖ, τὴν δὲ ἀκολούθησίν φησι τὴν διὰ τῶν πράξεων μίμησιν. ζωὴν δὲ λέγει διδόναι, ἣν καὶ αἰώνιόν φησιν, τὸ ἐν εὐθυμίᾳ διάγειν καὶ μακαριότητι διηνεκεῖ. τὸ δὲ ἀπο λέσθαι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦτό ἐστι δηλοῦν τὸ ὑποκείσεσθαι βασάνοις ἀπαύστοις. χεῖρα δὲ αὐτοῦ τὴν δύναμιν καὶ τὴν ἐξουσίαν φησίν, ἧς οὐδεὶς δύναται τοὺς ἑπομένους αὐτῷ ὑφαρπάσαι. εἰ δὲ καὶ ὡς φύσει θεὸς δίδωσιν αὐτὸς ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ, πλὴν καὶ ὡς ἄνθρωπος λέγεται λαμβάνειν. τοῦτο δέ φησιν, ὅτι διὰ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ πατρὸς οὐδεὶς ἁρπάζει αὐτὰ ὡς αὐτοῦ μὴ ἱκανοῦ ὄντος πρὸς φυλακήν, ἀλλὰ τοῦτό φησιν, ἵνα μὴ ἀντίθεον αὐτὸν εἴπωσιν· προεῖπε γάρ, ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἁρπάζει αὐτὰ ἐκ τῆς χειρός μου καὶ δεικνὺς μίαν οὖσαν ταύτην τὴν χεῖρα, ποτὲ μὲν αὐτοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτὴν εἶναί φησιν· αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν τοῦ πατρὸς δεξιά. εἶτα ἵνα μὴ διὰ τούτων τῶν ῥημάτων ἐλάττονα εἶναι νομίσῃ τις τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν υἱόν, ἐπήγαγεν ἑξῆς· ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν, κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν δηλονότι, ἣν καὶ χεῖρα καλεῖ. 358 {3Jο 10, 30}3Σημαίνων, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι καθ' ὑπόστασιν ἓν ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱός, εἶπεν τὸ ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατήρ· ἓν γάρ εἰσι τῇ οὐσίᾳ, τῇ δυνάμει, ἣν καὶ χεῖρα καλεῖ, ποτὲ μὲν ἑαυτοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ τοῦ πατρός. 359 {3Jο 10, 32}3Οὐκ ἐμοῦ μόνον εἰσὶ τὰ ἔργα, ἀλλὰ τῆς πάσης θεότητος· ὁ γὰρ πατὴρ δι' υἱοῦ ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ πάντα ποιεῖ, διδάσκει δὲ ἡμᾶς μετριοφρονεῖν καὶ μὴ ἀλαζονεύεσθαι, ἐὰν λάβωμέν τι παρὰ θεοῦ. 360 {3Jο 10, 33}3Ἀγνοοῦντες, ὅτι οὐ γυμνῇ τῇ θεότητι ἔμελλεν ὁ υἱὸς ἐπιδημεῖν, ἀλλὰ σαρκούμενος «ἐκ σπέρματος ∆αβίδ», βλασφημίαν ἔλεγον τὴν ὀρθὴν ὁμολογίαν. 361 {3Jο 10, 34}3Εἰ οἱ Ἰσραηλῖται ἄνθρωποι ῥυπαροὶ χάριτι τοῦτο λαβόντες οὐκ ἐγκαλοῦνται, πῶς ὁ φύσει τοῦτο ἔχων ἐπιτιμᾶται; 362 {3Jο 10, 36}3Ἁγιασθεὶς λέγεται ὁ υἱός, ἐπειδὴ ἐπέμφθη σφαγῆναι ὑπὲρ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου σωτηρίας· ἅγια γάρ ἐστι τὰ

ἀφοριζόμενα τῷ θεῷ εἰς θυσίαν. 363 {3Jο 10, 37-38}3 363Ἐπειδὴ τὴν οὐσίαν ἰδεῖν ἀμήχανον, ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ἔργων ἰσότητος τὸ ἀπαρ άλλακτον τῆς δυνάμεως παρίστησι, δι' ὧν λέγει ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ γινώσκεσθαι τὸν πατέρα καὶ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς ἑαυτόν. 364 {3Jο 10, 38}3Ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρί εἰμι καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοὶ θεωρεῖται κατὰ ταὐτὸν τῆς φύσεως καὶ τῆς οὐσίας· εἷς γὰρ ὁ τῆς φύσεως ὅρος, κἂν ἐν ἰδιαζούσαις ὑπάρξεσι νοοῦμεν τὴν ἁγίαν τριάδα· ὁ γὰρ πατὴρ οὐκ ἔστιν υἱὸς ἢ πνεῦμα οὐδὲ μὴν τὸ ἀνάπαλιν, εἰ καὶ οὐκ εἰσὶν ἐν διαστάσει διὰ τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους κοινωνίαν τε καὶ ἰσότητα· εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἐφ' ἡμῶν ἡ τοῦ τεκόντος οὐσία γιγνώσκεται καὶ ἐν τῷ τεχθέντι ὁ πατὴρ κατὰ τὸν τῆς οὐσίας λόγον, ἀλλὰ τῷ κεχωρίσθαι ἡμᾶς τοῖς σώμασιν, οὐκέτι «ἕν ἐσμεν» οἱ πολλοί.