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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"I am come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not; if another shall come in his own name, him will ye receive." Seest thou that He everywhere declareth that He hath been "sent," that judgment hath been committed to Him by the Father, that He can do nothing of Himself, in order that He may cut off all excuse for their unfairness? But who is it that He here saith shall come "in his own name"? He alludeth here to Antichrist, and putteth an incontrovertible proof of their unfairness. …
Cyril of Alexandria
In order that the Pharisees might not think that the Lord was idly railing at them, from His saying, Ye have not the love of God in you, He immediately adds this also to the above, showing that the saying is true. That I do not lie (says He) in saying that ye are bereft of love towards God, I will set before you by one thing. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"I," He says, "have come in the name of My Father." Everywhere He glorifies the Father and says that He was sent by Him and that He can do nothing of Himself, and in general expresses many humble things, wishing to cut off every pretext for not accepting Him. But another will come, that is, the antichrist, who will claim that he alone is God. If you, then, do not receive Me, Who came in the name of the Father, that is, Who says that He was sent by the Father, you will receive him. …
Western Saints
Hilary of Poitiers
He comes in the name of the Father: that is, He is not Himself the Father, yet is in the same divine nature as the Father: for as Son and God it is natural for Him to come in the name of the Father. Then, another coming in the same name they will receive: but he is one from whom men will expect glory, and to whom they will give glory in return, though he will feign to have come in the name of the Father. By this, doubtless, is signified the Antichrist, glorying in his false use of the Father's name. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then (v 43), he gives a sign that they do not love God. First, a present sign; secondly, a future sign (v 43b). The present sign concerns his own coming; so he says, I have come in my Father's name. As if to say: What I say is obvious, for if one loves his Lord, it is clear that he will honor and receive one who comes from him, and seek to honor him. But I have come in my Father's name, and I make his name known to the world: "I have made your name known to those you have given me" (below 17:6), and yet you do not accept me. …
Bonaventure
Here the second point is touched upon, namely the blindness of false love: because they did not receive the humble one, but will receive the proud one. "I came in the name of my Father," that is, seeking his glory, not my own: below in chapter eight: "I do not seek my own glory." "And you did not receive me": me, that is, the humble one: above in chapter one: "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." "If another shall come in his own name," such as the antichrist, who will seek his own glory, because it is said in Second …
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