Chapter 8.—In What Manner Christ Wills that All Shall Be One in Himself.
12. So the Son of God Himself, the Word of God, Himself also the Mediator between God and men, the Son of man,486 1 Tim. ii. 5 equal to the Father through the unity of the Godhead, and partaker with us by the taking upon Him of humanity, interceding for us with the Father in that He was man,487 Rom. viii. 34 yet not concealing that He was God, one with the Father, among other things speaks thus: “Neither pray I for these alone,” He says, “but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me. And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.”488 John xvii. 20–22
CAPUT VIII.
12. Quomodo Christus vult omnes in se unum esse. Sic ipse Filius Dei, Verbum Dei, et idem ipse mediator Dei et hominum Filius hominis (I Tim. II, 5), aequalis Patri per divinitatis unitatem, et particeps noster per humanitatis susceptionem, Patrem interpellans pro nobis per id quod homo erat (Rom. VIII, 34), nec tamen tacens quod Deus cum Patre unum erat, inter caetera ita loquitur: Non pro his autem rogo, inquit, tantum, sed et pro eis qui credituri sunt per verbum eorum in me: ut omnes unum sint, sicut tu Pater in me, et ego in te, ut et ipsi in nobis unum sint; ut mundus credat, quia tu me misisti. Et ego claritatem quam dedisti mihi, dedi eis, ut sint unum, sicut et nos unum sumus (Joan. XVII, 20-22).