There is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit;

also:-

The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;

and although it is added there that these Three are One, yet in their thinking they have divided the Divine Essence into the Three, which nevertheless cannot be divided. On this account also they have approached the Father because He is the First in order. And besides, the leaders in the Church have taught that they should pray to the Father for the sake of the Son that He might send the Holy Spirit. By this means the idea of their thought concerning the Three has been confirmed, and at this time they are not able to think of the Son as God, equal with the Father and one with the Father, but [they think] of the Son as equal with another man, although He as to the Human is the Only Justice and is called 'Jehovah our Justice' (Jer. xxiii 5, 6; xxxiii 15, 16). [2] As a result of this idea of their thought it has come to pass that they have not been able to comprehend that the Lord, as born in the world, can be the God of heaven and earth, and still less that He is the Only God, notwithstanding their having heard and read all the passages that have been quoted above (n. 613), and also these:-

All things whatsoever the Father has are Mine [John xvi 15.

He who sees Me sees Him Who sent Me] John xii 45.

The Father has given all things into the Son's hands John xiii 3.

Father, Thou hast given Me power over all flesh; all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine John xvii 2, 3, 10.

All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth Matt. xxviii 18.

Also that 'He was conceived from Jehovah the Father', with the result that His soul is from Him (Luke 34, [35], 38). Consequently He has the Divine Essence; besides many similar things elsewhere. That those things have been said of the Lord born in the world, anyone can see; as also that:-

He and the Father are One

and that:-

He is in the Father and the Father in Him

also that:-

He who sees Him sees the Father John x 28-38; xiv 6-11.

Although they have heard and read these things, they have nevertheless been unable to give up the idea conceived in boyhood and afterwards confirmed by teachers, and this has closed up their rational to such an extent that they have not been able to see, that is, to understand, these words of the Lord:-

I am the Way, the Truth (veritas) and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by Me John xiv 6.

He who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber; I am the Door, by Me if anyone enters in, he shall be saved John x 1, 9.

[3] Also [they have not been able to understand] that the Lord has glorified His Human, that is, united it to the Divine of the Father, that is, to the Divine that was in Him from conception, for the sake of making it possible for the human race to be united to God the Father in Him and through Hun. That this was the purpose of the Lord's coming into the world and of the glorification of His Human He teaches fully in John (chaps. xiv, xv, xvii), for He says:-

In that day you shall recognise that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you John xiv 20.

He who abides in Me and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing; unless anyone abides in Me he is cast forth, as a withered branch into the fire John xv 5, 6.

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth (veritos), that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in Me, and I in Thee, I in them and Thou in Me John xvii [19,] 21, 23, 26;

also chapter vi 36, and elsewhere. It is plain from these passages that the coming of the Lord into the world, and the glorification of His Human, had for an end the conjunction of men with God the Father in Him and through Him, thus that He is to be approached. The Lord also confirms this by having so often said that there must be belief in Him in order that they may have eternal life, as may be seen above (n. 553). [4] Who cannot see that all these things (haec et illa) have been said by the Lord concerning Himself in His Human, and that He would never say, nor could say, that He was in men and men were in Him and that there must be belief in Him in order that they may have eternal life, unless His Human was Divine? By 'to ask the Father in His Name' is not understood to approach God the Father directly nor to ask for His sake, but to approach the Lord, and the Father through Him, because the Father is in the Son, and they are one, as He Himself teaches. 'In His Name' has this signification, as can be established also from these passages:-

He who does not believe in the Son has been judged already, for he has not believed in the Name of the Only-begotten Son of God John iii 17, 18.

These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His Name John xx 31.

Jesus said, He who receives this boy in My Name, receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him Who has sent Me Luke ix 48.

Whatsoever you ask in My Name, that will I do John xiv 13, 14;

besides in other places, where 'in the Name of the Lord' is said (Matt. vii 22; xviii 5, 20; xix 29; xxiii 39; Mark ix 37; xvi 17; Luke xiii 35; xix 38; xxiv 47; John i 12; ii 23; v 43; xii 13; xv 16; xvi 23, 24, 26, 27; xvii 6). What 'the Name of God' is, and that 'the Name of the Father' is the Lord as to the Divine Human, may be seen above (n. 81, 165, 584).