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120 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
ing to the Scriptures, that Christ received all power from his
Father :
"
Knowing that the Father had given him all things
"
All things are delivered to
into his hands" (John, xiii, 3) ;
me by Father" my (Matt, xi, 27) ;
me in heaven, and on earth"
"
All power
(Matt, xxviii, 18).
is given to
How, then,
are we to understand his inability to give places to the sons of
"
Zebedee? We have the answer from our Lord himself: It is
not mine," he says,
"
to give to you, but to them for whom it is
prepared by my Father." mine to ;"
give you
See, then, the answer :
"
It is not
not because he had not the power of giving
it, but I cannot give it to you, who think you have a right to
heaven, because you are related to me ; for heaven is the por
tion of those only for whom it has been prepared by my Father;
to them, Christ, as being equal to the Father, can give it.
" As
all things," says St. Augustin (12), "which the Father has,
are mine, this is also mine, and I have prepared it with the
Father."
43. They object, eleventhly,
that text :
" The
Son cannot
do anything from himself, but what he sees the Father doing"
"
(John, v, 19). St. Thomas (13) answers this. AVhen it said
that the Son cannot do anything for himself, no power is taken
from the Son, which the Father has, for it is immediately added :
"For what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth,
but it is there that the Son has the power,
from his Father, from whom he also has his Nature." Hence,
in like manner ;"
Hilary (14) says :
"
This is the Unity of the Divine Nature ; ut
ita per se agat Filius quod non agat a se" The same reply will
meet all the other texts they adduce, as :
mine" (John, vii, 1C) ;
him all things" (John, v, 20) ;
" The
"
My
doctrine is not
Father loves the Son, and shows
"
All
things are delivered to me
by my Father" (Matt, xi, 27). All these texts prove, they say,
that the Son cannot be God by Nature and Substance. But we
answer, that the Son, being generated by the Father, receives
everything from him by communication, and the Father, gene-
fating, communicates to him all he has, except the Paternity;
and this is the distinction between Him and the Son, for the
(12) St. Angus. /. 1, de Trin. c. 12. (14) Hilar. de Trin. /. 9.
(13) St. Thomas, 1, p. 9, 42, a. 6,
ad 1.