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John 10:30

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John 10:30 (WEB)

I and the Father are one.”

Catechism · 1

  • §590Paragraph 1 · Jesus and IsraelRead at vatican.va

    “…the Temple"; his reminder that David had called the Messiah his Lord, and his affirmations, "Before Abraham was, I AM", and even "I and the Father are one."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 8:58; 10:30.

Fathers and councils · 133

Augustine of Hippo

Origen

  • “To this we reply, that if Celsus had known that saying, “I and My Father are one,” and the words used in prayer by the Son of God, “As Thou and I are one,” he would not have supposed that we worship any other besides Him who is the Supreme God.” — editor's note: John x. 30.

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Gregory of Nyssa

Tertullian

Athanasius of Alexandria

Hippolytus of Rome

John Damascene

  • “Also of those that refer to the period before the incarnation there are six modes: for some of them declare the union of nature and the identity in essence with the Father, as this, I and My Father are one: also this, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father: and this, Who being in the form of God, and so forth.” — editor's note: St. John x. 30.

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Catena Aurea on John

  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    “John 10:30.” — the author cites it

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication. Encænia is the feast of the dedication of the temple; from the Greek word καινὸν, signifying new. The dedication of any thing new was called encænia.

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    It was the feast of the dedication of the temple, after the return from the Babylonish captivity.

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    Or, it was in memory of the dedication under Judas Maccabeus. The first dedication was that of Solomon in the autumn; the second that of Zorobabel, and the priest Jesus in the spring. This was in winter time.

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on John

    Judas Maccabeus instituted an annual commemoration of this dedication.

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John

    The Evangelist mentions the time of winter, to shew that it was near His passion. He suffered in the following spring; for which reason He took up His abode at Jerusalem.

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  • Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John

    Or because the season of cold was in keeping with the cold malicious hearts of the Jews.

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Christ was present with much zeal at this feast, and thenceforth stayed 1in Judæa; His passion being now at hand. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    It is called Solomon’s porch, because Solomon went to pray there. The porches of a temple are usually named after the temple. If the Son of God walked in a temple where the flesh of brute animals was offered up, how…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John

    Be thou also careful, in the winter time, i. e. while yet in this stormy wicked world, to celebrate the dedication of thy spiritual temple, by ever renewing thyself, ever rising upward in heart. Then will Jesus be…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    The Jews cold in love, burning in their malevolence, approached Him not to honour, but persecute. Then came the Jews round about Him, and said unto Him, How long dost Thou make us to doubt? If Thou be the Christ,…

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Being able to find no fault with His works, they tried to catch Him in His words. And mark their perversity. When He instructs by His discourse, they say, What sign shewest Thou? When He demonstrates by His works,…

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    They accuse Him of keeping their minds in suspense and uncertainty, who had come to save their soulsa.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    They wanted our Lord to say, I am the Christ. Perhaps, as they had human notions of the Messiah, having failed to discern His divinity in the Prophets, they wanted Christ to confess Himself the Messiah, of the seed…

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    And thus they intended to give Him into the hands of the Proconsul for punishment, as an usurper against the emperor. Our Lord so managed His reply as to stop the mouths of His calumniators, open those of the…

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    He reproves their malice, for pretending that a single word would convince them, whom so many words had not. If you do not believe My works, He says, how will you believe My words? And He adds why they do not…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    He saw that they were persons predestinated to eternal death, and not those for whom He had bought eternal life, at the price of His blood. The sheep believe, and follow the Shepherd.

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John

    After He had said, Ye are not of My sheep, He exhorts them to become such: My sheep hear My voice.

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    i. e. Obey My precepts from the heart. And I know them, and they follow Me, here by walking in gentleness and innocence, hereafter by entering the joys of eternal life: And I give unto them eternal life.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    This is the pasture of which He spoke before: And shall find pasture. Eternal life is called a goodly pasture: the grass thereof withereth not, all is spread with verdure. But these cavillers thought only of this…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John

    But how then did Judas perish? Because he did not continue to the end. Christ speaks of them who persevere. If any sheep is separated from the flock, and wanders from the Shepherd, it incurs danger immediately.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    And He adds why they do not perish: Neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. (2 Tim. 2:19) Of those sheep of which it is said, The Lord knoweth then that are His, the wolf robbeth none, the thief taketh none,…

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  • Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John

    This is the speech of conscious power. Yet to shew, that though of the Divine nature He hath His nativity from God, He adds, My Father which gave Me them is greater than all. He does not conceal His birth from the…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    The Son, born from ever lasting of the Father, God from God, has not equality with the Father by growth, but by birth. This is that greater than all which the Father gave Himb; viz. to be His Word, to be His…

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  • Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John

    The hand of the Son is spoken of as the hand of the Father, to let thee see, by a bodily representation, that both have the same nature, that the nature and virtue of the Father is in the Son also.

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Then that thou mayest not suppose that the Father’s power protects the sheep, while He is Himself too weak to do so, He adds, I and My Father are one.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    Mark both those words, one and are, and thou wilt be delivered from Scylla and Charybdis. In that He says, one the Arian, in we are the Sabellian, is answered. There are both Father and Son. And if one, then there is…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    We are one. What He is, that am I, in respect of essence, not of relation.

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  • Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John

    The heretics, since they cannot gainsay these words, endeavour by an impious lie to explain them away. They maintain that this unity is unanimity only; a unity of will, not of nature; i. e. that the two are one, not…

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Catena Aurea on Luke

  • BedeCatena Aurea on Luke

    “(John 10:30.)” — the author cites it

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on Luke

    “For He had often declared Himself to be the Christ; as when he said, l and my Father are one, (John 10:30.) and other such like things.” — the author cites it

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Theodoret of Cyrus

Cyprian of Carthage

Ambrose of Milan

Basil the Great

  • “It is then to His living image, to Him Who has said “I and my Father are one,” “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” that God says “Let us make man in our image.”” — editor's note: John x. 30.

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  • “It does indeed equally well with the preposition “and,” confute the mischief of Sabellius; and it sets forth quite as well as “and” the distinction of the hypostases, as in the words “I and my Father will come,” and “I and my Father are one.”” — editor's note: John x. 30.

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John Chrysostom

Leo the Great

  • “…gates of paradise to the robber’s faith: so it is not part of the same nature to say, “I and the Father are one,” and to say, “the Father is greater than I.” For although in the Lord Jesus Christ God and man is one person, yet the source of the degradation, which is shared by both, is one, and the source of the…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 28; x. 30: the reconciliation of this class of apparently contradictory statements is often undertaken by Leo [e.g. Sermon xxiii. 2 and lxxvii. 5;…

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  • “But these two natures form one Christ, Who has said most truly both according to His Godhead: “I and the Father are one,” and according to His manhood “the Father is greater than I.” This true and indestructible Faith, dearly-beloved, which alone makes us true Christians, and…” — editor's note: S. John x. 30; xiv. 28.

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  • “…person in Himself, the same Son of God with the same form, says, “The Father is greater than I,” just as He says with the same form, “I and my Father are one.”” — editor's note: Ib. x. 30.

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  • “And hence when the Only-begotten of God confesses Himself less than the Father, and yet calls Himself equal with Him, He demonstrates the reality of both forms in Himself: so that the inequality proves the human nature, and the equality the Divine.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 28, and x. 30.

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  • “…His disciples, as was read in the Gospel lection, “if ye loved Me, ye would assuredly rejoice, because I go to the Father, because the Father is greater than I;” but those ears, which have often heard the words, “I and the Father are One,” and “He that sees Me, sees the Father also,” accept the saying without…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 28; x. 30; xiv. 9. In the English Church, the Gospel for Whitsunday is still the same as it was in Leo’s time at Rome.

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Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “And when you read, I and the Father are One, keep before your eyes the Unity of Substance; but when you see, “We will come to him, and make Our abode with him,” remember the distinction of Persons; and when you see the Names, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, think of the Three Personalities.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 30.

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Catena Aurea on Matthew

Aphrahat

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