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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
But perhaps when the Divine Scripture saith that the Son was sent from the Father, the heretic straightway deems the expression a support to his own error, and will say in all probability: "Ye who refuse to speak of the Son as inferior to the Father, do ye not see that He was sent from Him, as from a superior and a greater one?" What then shall we say? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
How then do I blaspheme when I call Myself the Son of God? For although I bear flesh and descend from the lineage of David, you do not know the mystery, namely that the fleshly human nature could not otherwise receive communion with God unless He appeared to it in the flesh, as if under a veil.
Western Saints
Hilary of Poitiers
Before proving that He and His Father are one, He answers the absurd and foolish charge brought against Him, that He being man made Himself God. When the Law applied this title to holy men, and the indelible word of God sanctioned this use of the incommunicable name, it could not be a crime in Him, even though He were man, to make Himself God. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, he draws his conclusion. If, with Hilary, we refer this to Christ insofar as he has a human nature, the meaning is this: Some people are called gods only because they participate in God's word. How then can you say, you are blaspheming, that is, how can you consider it blasphemy, if that man who is united in person to the Word of God is called God? This is why he says, whom the Father sanctified. …
Bonaventure
"Whom the Father has sanctified," that is, "begot as holy," "and sent into the world," he did not call him from the world and the darkness of the world, as he did other Saints: "you say: You blaspheme, because I said: I am the Son of God?" As if to say: you speak irrationally. "For if the illuminated are gods, is not the light which illuminates, God?" The Lord was not blaspheming, but they themselves were, who said of God that he was not God. …
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