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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Cyril of Alexandria
Uncontained by the Jews did He say that His word was, and having said that this was the only reason why they were incited against Him, yea rather convicting them of desiring even to kill Him, needs does He add these things also, and why, I will set forth. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Lest they should say to Him again that we justly hate You even for Your word, because You speak to us not from God but from Yourself, and therefore we cannot accept Your teaching, He adds: "I speak not of Myself, but I speak what I have seen with My Father; and you do what you have seen with your father." "I," He says, "proclaim what is divine and heavenly, and thereby reveal My Father, while you by your deeds reveal your father, that is, the devil." When you hear these words, "I speak what I have seen," do not think of bodily …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Our Lord by His Father wishes us to understand God: as if to say, I have seen the truth, I speak the truth, because I am the truth. If our Lord then speaks the truth which He saw with the Father, it is Himself that He saw, Himself that He speaks; He being Himself the truth of the Father.
Thomas Aquinas
In Deuteronomy (c 18) we read that a prophet who speaks, as coming from the mouth of the Lord, things that the Lord did not say, should be killed. So, lest the Jews say that he should be killed for speaking from himself, and not from the mouth of the Lord, he adds, I speak of what I have seen with my Father. As if to say: I cannot be accused of speaking things that I have not heard, for I speak not only what I have heard, but what is more, I speak of what I have seen. …
Bonaventure
"I speak what I have seen with my Father," imitating him: Ephesians 5: "Be imitators of God as most beloved children." "And you do what you have seen with your father"; whence you have a father by imitation. Just as these had a twofold father: according to the flesh and imitation: so Abraham had two kinds of children; Romans 9: "Not all who are the seed of Abraham are children, but those who are the children of the promise." But here a question is raised about what is said in the text: "You do what you have seen with your father." …
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