John 14:8 (WEB)
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
Fathers and councils · 41
Gregory of Nyssa
“And herein is His saying found true which tells us, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 8
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Tertullian
“And now we come to Philip, who, roused with the expectation of seeing the Father, and not understanding in what sense he was to take “seeing the Father,” says: “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.”” — editor's note: Ver. 8.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…Son shall reveal Him,’ and if on Philip’s asking, ‘Shew us the Father,’ He said not, ‘Behold the creation,’ but, ‘He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father,’ reasonably doth Paul,—while accusing the Greeks of contemplating the harmony and order of the creation without reflecting on the Framing Word within it (for…” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” and if they choose to maintain that their dogma is ratified by this passage, as if He owned Himself to be the Father, let them know that it is decidedly against them, and that they are confuted by this very word.” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And if I said, “Hope thou in God,” she very properly obeyed me not; because that most dear friend whom she had lost was, being man, both truer and better than that phantasm she was bid to hope in.” — editor's note: The mind may rest in theories and abstractions, but the heart craves a being that it can love; and Archbishop Whately has shown in one of his essays that the…
Read the whole comment“But perhaps His disciples saw Him, when they said unto Him, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us;” and He, to show that it was not Himself that had been seen by them, added: “Have I been so long with you, and have ye not known Me, Philip?” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
Read the whole comment“Then said He, “Have I been so long time with you, and hast thou not known Me, Philip: he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“So it is said, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us:” and our Lord Himself answereth, “I will manifest Myself to Zion;” and until this promise is fulfilled, no blessing satisfies us, or ought to do so, lest our longings should be arrested in their course, when they ought to be…” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 21.
Read the whole comment“But when the Beginning shall appear to be with Thee, then shall it be manifest unto all who are made like Thee; since they shall see Thee as Thou art; for Philip saw Thee here, and sought the Father.” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
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“For when Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us;” he understood indeed that if the Father were shown him, it might well suffice him; but how would the Father suffice him whom He that was equal to the Father sufficed not?” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
Read the whole comment“What the Apostles also saw, when Philip said, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
Read the whole comment“Thus speaking to a certain Apostle, who asked to see the Father, that it might suffice him, and said, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us” —Then He standing before this servant’s eyes, in the form of a servant, reserving for his eyes when deified the Form of God, saith to him, “Have I been so long…” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
Read the whole comment“Ask what may suffice you; speak Philip’s language, “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
Read the whole comment“He immediately adds, “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father also.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“And the Lord, that they might understand that they knew not what they thought they did already know, said, “Am I so long time with you, and ye know me not, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father.”” — editor's note: John xiv. 8.
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.
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John Chrysostom
“He knew which of His disciples needed most instruction; for this is he who afterwards said, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us” ( c. xiv. 8 ), and on this account Jesus was beforehand bringing him into a proper state.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“John xiv. 8, 9” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…ten thousand questions, (for Peter said, “Whither goest Thou?” [ c. xiii. 36]; and Thomas, “We know not whither Thou goest, and how can we know the way?” [ c. xiv. 5 and 8]; and Philip, “Show us Thy Father”;) these men, I say, now hearing, “they will put you out of the synagogues,” and “will hate you,” and…” — 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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.1.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 37.