23. They have not the love of God in them, He says, because they rejected Him coming in the name of the Father, but accepted another, who came in the same name, and received glory of one another, but neglected the glory of Him, Who is the only true God. Is it possible to think that He separates Himself from the glory of the only God, when He gives as the reason why they seek not the glory of the only God, that they receive Antichrist, and Himself they will not receive? To reject Him is to neglect the glory of the only God; is not, then, His glory the glory of the only God, if to receive Him steadfastly was to seek the glory of the only God? This very discourse is our witness: for at its beginning we read, That all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which sent Him494    Ib. v. 23.. It is only things of the same nature that are equal in honour; equality of honour denotes that there is no separation between the honoured. But with the revelation of the birth is combined, the demand for equality of honour. Since the Son is to be honoured as the Father495    Following the punctuation of the older Editions, and placing the full stop after, instead of before, the sentence “cum Filius ita honorandus ut Pater sit.”, and since they seek not the honour of Him, Who is the only God, He is not excluded from the honour of the only God, for His honour is one and the same as that of God: just as He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father also, so he who seeks not the honour of the only God, seeks not the honour of Christ also. Accordingly the honour of Christ is inseparable from the honour of God. By His words, when the news of Lazarus’ sickness was brought to Him, He illustrates the complete identification of Father and Son in honour: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of Man may be glorified through him.496    St. John xi. 4, “through him” = through Lazarus. The Greek is δι᾽ αὐτῆς, “thereby” (R.V.). Lazarus dies for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through him. Is there any doubt that the glory of the Son of God is the glory of God, when the death of Lazarus, which is glorious to God, glorifies the Son of God? Thus Christ is declared to be one in nature with God the Father through His birth, since the sickness of Lazarus is for the glory of God, and at the same time the Mystery of the faith is not violated, for the Son of God is to be glorified through Lazarus. The Son of God is to be regarded as God, yet He is none the less to be confessed also Son of God: for by glorifying God through Lazarus, the Son of God is glorified.

23. Dei et Christi honor inseparabilis.---Anne cum ob hoc dilectionem Dei non habeant, quia venientem se in nomine Patris non acceperint, et rursum venientem alium in eodem nomine recipientes, et honorem ab alterutro accipientes, honorem ejus qui solus Deus est non requirant, separare se Christus ab honore unius Dei poterit intelligi; cum idcirco non quaeratur honor solius Dei, quia antichristum suscipiendo non sit ille susceptus? Nam cujus repudiatio, honoris solius Dei praetermissio est; in hujus honore necesse est honorem solius Dei esse, in cujus si susceptione mansissent, honorem solius 0299A Dei quaesissent. Et hic idem ipse sermo testis est nobis, in cujus exordio continetur: Ut omnes honorificent Filium, sicut honorificant patrem. Qui non honorificat filium non honorificat Patrem qui misit illum (Joan. V, 23). Numquam nisi naturalia exaequantur in honore: neque exaequatus honor separat honorandos. Cum sacramento tamen nativitatis poscitur honoris aequalitas. Cum Filius ita honorandus ut Pater sit, et cum ejus, qui solus est Deus, honor non quaeritur; non est extra solius Dei honorem, cujus honor idem atque unus et Dei est: quia ut non honorificans Filium, non honorificat et Patrem (Ibid.); ita et solius Dei honorem non quaerens, non quaerit et Christi. Inseparabilis itaque est a Dei honore honor Christi. Et quam unus, atque 276 idem utriusque sit, etiam ex eo docet, cum ait 0299B nuntiata sibi Lazari infirmitate: Infirmitas ista non est usque ad mortem, sed pro gloria Dei est, ut honorificetur filius Dei per eum (Joan. XI, 4). Pro gloria Dei Lazarus moritur, ut filius Dei glorificetur per Lazarum. Numquid ambigitur, in gloria filii Dei esse gloriam Dei; cum mors Lazari, quae Deo sit gloriosa, gloriam sit Dei filio paritura ? Atque ita et naturalis per nativitatem unitas Dei patris in Christo docetur, cum infirmitas Lazari pro Dei gloria est; et sacramentum fidei retinetur, cum per Lazarum glorificandus est Dei filius: Deo per id Dei filio intelligendo, neque ita Deo intelligendo, ut non etiam Dei filio confitendo; cum glorificando per Lazarum Deo, Dei sit filius gloriosus.