John 14:10 (WEB)
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
Catechism · 1
“In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:9-10.
Fathers and councils · 72
Gregory of Nyssa
“…uttered by the Lord is far removed from falsehood, he will of course be persuaded that He speaks the truth Who says, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,”—plainly, the One in His entirety, in the Other in His entirety, the Father not superabounding in the Son, the Son not being deficient in the Father,—and Who…” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10
Read the whole comment“…Who has the Eternal Father in Himself, and is contemplated in the eternity of the Father, as He Himself says, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10
Read the whole comment“For if things at “variance” are not in harmony, and He Who is sealed by the Father, and displays the Father in Himself, both being in the Father, and having the Father in Himself, shows in all points His close relation and harmony, then the absurdity of the opposing views is hereby overwhelmingly shown.” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xiv. 10
Read the whole comment“…antecedent to the existence of the Only-begotten, be led by their reasoning to the idea of non-existence), saith, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me,” in the sense that neither is that which is not conceived in that which is, nor that which is in that which is not.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10
Read the whole comment“…change, but My very self, Who am in the Father—will have seen that Father Himself in Whom I am, because the very same character of Godhead is beheld in both.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“If any one should say, “The ‘beginning’ which is mentioned in the Gospel”—it is the Father Who is there signified, and the confession of the Son together with Him is there pointed to, nor can it be that He Who is in the Father, as the Lord says, can begin His being in Him from any particular point.” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10
Read the whole comment“For it is not this that He indicates Who said, “He that sent Me is with Me,” and “The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; and henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 7, 9, 10.
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Tertullian
“For as in the Old Testament Scriptures they lay hold of nothing else than, “I am God, and beside me there is no God;” so in the Gospel they simply keep in view the Lord’s answer to Philip, “I and my Father are one;” and, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“If, indeed, He meant the Father to be understood as the same with the Son, by saying, “He who seeth me seeth the Father,” how is it that He adds immediately afterwards, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…Image, ‘I am in the Father, and the Father in Me;’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father;’ and, ‘The Father that abideth in Me, He doeth the works;’ for what we behold in that Image are the Father’s works.” — editor's note: John xiv. 10, 9.
Read the whole comment“…and is known from the Father’s works which He Himself worketh, to be ‘in the Father and the Father in Him,’ and ‘He that hath seen Him hath seen the Father,’ because the Son’s Essence is proper to the Father, and He in all points like Him.” — editor's note: Vid. John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“…the Father in Me,’ and ‘I and the Father are one,’ and, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and ‘I am the Light of the world,’ and, ‘I am the Truth;’ not setting down in every case the reason, nor the wherefore, lest He should seem second to those things for which He was made.” — editor's note: John xiv. 6, 9, 10; x. 30; viii. 12
Read the whole comment“And how too has the Son delight, except as seeing Himself in the Father? for this is the same as saying, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ and ‘I am in the Father and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“Chapter XXIII.—Texts Explained; Seventhly, John xiv. 10 Introduction.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“And This it was who said, ‘He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father,’ and, ‘I in the Father and the Father in Me,’ and, ‘I and the Father are one;’ for thus God is One, and one the faith in the Father and Son; for, though the Word be God, the Lord our God is one Lord; for the Son is proper to that One,…” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10; x. 30.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.7Discourse III
“For thus has the Father spoken, ‘My heart uttered a good Word;’ and the Son conformably, ‘I in the Father and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 1; John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment “This the Lord said, viz. ‘I and the Father are One;’ for neither is the Word separated from the Father, nor was or is the Father ever Wordless; on this account He says, ‘I in the Father and the Father in Me.’” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“But if so, how says He now, ‘I in the Father and the Father in Me?’ but if He is now in the Father, then always was He in the Father, as He is now, and needless is it to say, ‘For us was He begotten, and He reverts after we are formed, that He may be as He was.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“And whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.’” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 9–13.
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John Damascene
“Again, others declare the indwelling of the subsistences in one another, as, I am in the Father and the Father in Me; and the inseparable foundation, as, for instance, the Word, Wisdom, Power, Effulgence.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 10.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“It is most absurd to affirm that the Father ever existed without the Son, for that this could never be so has been testified by the Son Himself, who said, ‘I am in the Father, and the Father in Me;’ and ‘I and My Father are one.’” — editor's note: John xiv. 10
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Ambrose of Milan
“For it is written, “The Father, Who abideth in Me, Himself speaketh,” and “The works that I do, He Himself also doeth.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 9–10.
Read the whole comment“But how, indeed, could our adversaries justly deny this, even if they would, when the Scripture saith: “But the Father, Who abideth in Me, even He doeth the works;” and “The works that I do, He Himself worketh”?” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“…the Son speaks, the Father speaks also, as it is written: “My Father, Who dwelleth in Me, He it is that speaketh, and the works that I do He Himself doeth.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“So when He had said: “The Father that dwelleth in Me, He speaketh; and the works that I do, He doeth;” He added: “Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the very work’s sake.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“Lastly, Wisdom so says that she came forth from the mouth of the Most High, as not to be external to the Father, but with the Father; for “the Word was with God;” and not only with God but also in God; for He says: “I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.”” — editor's note: Ibid. xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“…Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;” and in the Gospel: “I in the Father and the Father in Me,” and “the Father that dwelleth in Me.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He was not far from Him, for Himself had said, “I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“Therefore He adds a consequence, and says: “Know ye not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?” that is, both in Me seen the Father is seen, and in the Father seen the Son too is seen.” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“For Thou hast said elsewhere also, “But the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth His works.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“…which the Lord gave concerning Himself, when He said: “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also;” and, “I am in the Father, and the Father is in me;” “that they may be one, even as we are one;” and, “Whatsoever the Father doeth, these same things doeth the Son likewise.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“But because He intended him, before he could see this, to live by faith, He went on to say, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 10
Read the whole comment“Therefore these three things are marvellously inseparable from each other, and yet each of them is severally a substance, and all together are one substance or essence, whilst they are mutually predicated relatively.” — editor's note: [Augustin here illustrates, by the ternary of mind, love, and knowledge, what the Greek Trinitarians denominate the περιχώρησις of the divine essence. By the…
Read the whole comment“Where then is that saying, “The Father who dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“For if Christ only, what means His saying, “The Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“And lest Philip should think that he was to conceive of God under the same form in which he then saw the Lord Jesus Christ in the body, he immediately subjoined; “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“If the Father, abiding in the Son, Himself doeth His works, then that walking upon the sea was made by the Father, and through the Son.” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“In another place He said, “The Father abiding in me doeth the works.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment“And in that showing the Son gave promise also of His own presence, when He said, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?”” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 8, 10.
Read the whole comment“…place of Christ where He always is, is the Father Himself, and the place of the Father is the Son; for “I,” He said, “am in the Father, and the Father in me;” and in this prayer, “As Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee:” and they are our place, because there follows, “That they also may be one in us:” and we are…” — editor's note: Chap. xiv. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“Or if not, believe Me for the very works’ sake.” ( c. xiv. 10, 11.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Indeed His saying, that “I am in the Father and the Father in Me” ( c. xiv. 10 ), intimateth to us the equality.” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“As then in saying respecting Himself, “I speak not of Myself” ( c. xiv. 10 ), He meaneth that He speaketh nothing beside what the Father saith, nothing of His own against Him, or differing from Him, so also with respect to the Spirit.” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; or else believe for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 6–11.
Read the whole comment“…and, He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also; and, Believe Me, that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father: or else believe for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John x. 30; xiv. 7, 9, 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.” — editor's note: St. John xiv. 9–11.
Read the whole comment“Take, for instance, the words, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also, and, The words that I say, I speak not from Myself.” — editor's note: Ib. 10.
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John Cassian
“The one says, “My rivers are mine and I made them:” the other: “I can do nothing of myself, but my Father who abideth in me, He doeth the works.”” — editor's note: S. John v. 30; xiv. 10.
Read the whole comment““I can,” He says, “of mine own self do nothing, but the Father which abideth in me, He doeth the works.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 10; v. 30.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
A declaration so new startled Philip. Our Lord is seen to be man. He confesses Himself to be the Son of God, declares that, if He were known, the Father would be known, that, if He is seen, the Father is seen. The…
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For to that joy of beholding His face, nothing can be added. Philip understood this, and said, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. But he did not yet understand that he could in the same way have said,…
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But how is this, when our Lord said that they knew whither He was going, and the way, because they knew Him? The question is easily settled by supposing that some of them knew, and others not; among the latter, Philip.
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He reproves the ignorance of Philip in this respect. For whereas his actions had been strictly divine, such as walking on the water, commanding the winds, remitting sins, raising the dead, He complained that in His…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
When two persons are very like each, we say, If you have seen the one, you have seen the other. So here, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father; not that He is both the Father, and the Son, but that the Son is an…
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He does not mean the sight of the bodily eye: for His fleshly part, born of the Virgin, doth not avail towards contemplating the form and image of God in Him; but the Son of God being known with the understanding, it…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
But is he to be reproved, who, when he has seen the likeness, wishes to see the man of whom he is the likeness? No: our Lord rebuked the question, only with reference to the mind of the asker. Philip asked, as if the…
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For what excuse was there for ignorance of the Father, or what necessity to shew Him, when the Father was seen in the Son by His essential nature2, while by the identity of unity, the Begotten and the Begetter are…
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He wished him to live by faith, before he had sight, and therefore says, Believest thou not? Spiritual vision is the reward of faith, vouchsafed to minds purified by faith.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John
But the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father, not by a conjunction of two harmonizing essences3, nor by a nature grafted into a more capacious substance as in material bodies, in which it is impossible…
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The unchangeable God follows, so to speak, His own nature, by begetting unchangeable God. Nor does the perfect birth of unchangeable God from unchangeable God forsake His own nature. We understand then here the…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Or thus: Philip, because [he thought] he had seen the Son with his bodily eye, wished to see the Father in the same way; perhaps too remembering what the Prophet said, I saw the Lord, and therefore he says, Shew us…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
He then addresses all of them, not Philip only: The word that I speak unto you, I speak not of Myself. What is, I speak not of Myself, but, I that speak am not of Myself? He attributes what He does to Him, from whom…
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Wherein He neither desires Himself to be the Son, nor hides the existence1 of His Father’s power in Him. In that He speaks, it is Himself that speaks in His own person; in that He speaks not of Himself, He witnesseth…
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Mark the abundant proof of the unity of substance. For He continues; But the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. As if He said, My Father and I act together, not differently from each other; agreeing with…
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For he that edifieth his neighbour by speaking, doth a good work. These two sentences are brought against us by different sects of heretics; the Arians saying that the Son is unequal to the Father, because He does…
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That the Father dwells in the Son, shews that He is not single, or solitary; that the Father works by the Son, shews that He is not different or alien. As He is not solitary who doth not speak from Himself, so…
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Philip alone was reproved before.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
But if this does not suffice to shew ray consubstantiality, at least learn it from My works: Or else believe Me for the very works’ sake. Ye have seen My miracles, and all the proper signs of My divinity; works which…
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Believe then for My works’ sake, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; for, were we separated, we could not be working together.
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Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.11 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XII.3 and 2 other places.
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Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
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Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.12.
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