7. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whoso heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but is passed,” not is passing now, but is already passed, “from death into life.” And mark this, “Whoso heareth my word, and”—He says not, believeth me, but—“believeth Him that sent me.” Let him hear the word of the Son, that he may believe the Father. Why heareth Thy word, and yet believeth another? When we hear any one’s word, is it not him that utters the word we believe? is it not to him who speaks we lend our faith? What, then, did He mean, saying, “Whoso heareth my word, and believeth Him that sent me,” if it be not this, because “His word is in me”? And what is “heareth my word,” but “heareth me”? So, too, “believeth Him that sent me,” because, believing Him, he believeth His word; but again, believing His word, he believeth me, because I am the Word of the Father. There is therefore peace in the Scriptures, and all things duly disposed, and in no way clashing. Cast away, then, contention from thy heart; understand the harmony of the Scriptures. Dost thou think that the Truth should speak things contrary to itself?

7. Amen, amen dico vobis, quia qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me, habet vitam aeternam; et in judicium non venit, sed transiit, non nunc transit, sed jam transiit a morte in vitam. Et hoc attendite, Qui verbum meum audit: et non dixit, Credit mihi; sed, credit ei qui me misit. Verbum ergo Filii audiat, ut Patri credat. Quare verbum audit tuum, et credit alteri? Nonne cum verbum alicujus audimus, eidem verbum proferenti credimus, loquenti nobis fidem accommodamus? Quid ergo voluit dicere, Qui verbum meum audit, et credit ei qui misit me; nisi, quia verbum ejus est in me? Et quid est, audit verbum meum, nisi, audit me? Credit autem ei qui misit me: quia cum illi credit, verbo ejus credit: cum autem verbo ejus credit, mihi credit; quia Verbum Patris ego sum. Pax ergo in Scripturis, et omnia disposita, nequaquam rixantia. Tu abjice litem cordis tui, intellige concordiam Scripturarum. Numquid contraria sibi diceret veritas?