11. But although the wickedness of man can pervert his intellectual powers, nevertheless the words retain their meaning. Our Lord prays to His Father that those who shall believe in Him may be one, and as He is in the Father and the Father in Him, so all may be one in Them. Why dost thou bring in here an identity of mind, why a unity of soul and heart through agreement of will? For there would have been no lack of suitable words for our Lord, if it were will that made them one, to have prayed in this fashion,—Father, as We are one in will, so may they also be one in will, that we may all be one through agreement. Or could it be that He Who is the Word was unacquainted with the meaning of words? and that He Who is Truth knew not how to speak the truth? and He Who is Wisdom went astray in foolish talk? and He Who is Power was compassed about with such weakness that He could not speak what He wished to be understood? He has clearly spoken the true and sincere mysteries of the faith of the Gospel. And He has not only spoken that we may comprehend, He has also taught that we may believe, saying, That they all may be one, as Thou Father art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us. For those first of all is the prayer of whom it is said, That they all may be one. Then the promotion of unity is set forth by a pattern of unity, when He says, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us, so that as the Father is in the Son and the Son in the Father, so through the pattern of this unity all might be one in the Father and the Son.

11. Improprie UT UNUM SINT de unanimitate dixisset Christus.---Sed licet ipsum intelligentiae suae sensum impietas demutet, non tamen potest intelligentia non exstare dictorum. Dominus Patrem orat, ut qui in se credituri sint, unum sint, et sicut ipse in Patre, et Pater in eo est, ita omnes in his unum sint. Quid hic aequanimitatem, quid per voluntatis assensum animae et cordis unitatem introducis? Fuerat namque in verborum copia et proprietate, ut si voluntas unum esse eos faceret, Dominus ita precaretur: Pater, 0243B sicut nos unum volumus, ita et illi unum velint, ut unum per concordiam simus omnes. Aut forte qui verbum est, significationem verbi ignoravit? et qui veritas est, loqui vera nescivit? et qui sapientia est, in stultiloquio erravit? et qui virtus est, in ea fuit infirmitate, ne posset eloqui quae vellet intelligi? Locutus plane ille est vera et sincera fidei evangelicae sacramenta. Neque solum locutus est ad significationem, sed etiam ad fidem docuit, ita dicens: Ut omnes unum sint, sicut tu Pater in me, et ego in te, ut et ipsi sint in nobis. Pro his primum precatio est, de quibus dicitur, Ut omnes unum sint: tum deinde unitatis profectus exemplo unitatis ostenditur, cum ait: Sicut tu, Pater, in me, et ego in te, ut et 0243C ipsi sint in nobis: ut sicut Pater in Filio et Filius in 0244A Patre est, ita per hujus unitatis formam, in Patre et Filio unum omnes essent.