TCR Additions (Whitehead) n. 12

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12. Concerning the Lord. 1. In Christ Man is God, and God Man. 2. The Father Himself is one. 3. He who has seen the Son has seen the Father; He is in the Father, and the Father in Him. 4. "All mine are thine, and thine are mine;" thus all the Divinity of the Father is in the Son, and all the Humanity of the Son is in the Father. 5. From which it follows that in the Lord God and Saviour, God is Man, and Man is God. Consequently that God the Father assumed the Humanity, and thus that the Lord God is the Saviour, and also the Father. 6. That the Father is the Saviour, appears from Isaiah:

Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not; Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, our Redeemer; Thy name is from everlasting. And again in Isaiah:

Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and His name is God, Hero, Father of Eternity. And in the Lord's Prayer we read:

Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come. That is:

God and Father, hallowed be Thy Human, and thus let Thy kingdom come. 7. That the Human is meant by the name of the Father, appears from these words of the Lord, "Father, glorify Thy name," that is, Thy Human, and thus, and not otherwise, Thy kingdom shall come. 8. By a name in heaven nothing else is meant than the quality of anyone; wherefore all are named there according to their quality, quite differently from what is done in the natural world. And the quality of God the Father is in His Human; otherwise no one would know the quality of Divinity, because it is infinite. 9. That this is so appears from these words of the Lord, "All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me," and "from henceforth ye know the Father, and have seen Him." 10. Every man can say the same thing of his own soul and his own body, "All thine shall come to me; all mine are thine, all thine are mine: we are one; he who sees me, sees thee," and so forth. If man as to his body is called father, he is the father also as to his soul. 11. For in the Lord, God and Man, or the Divine and the Human nature, are as one Person, as the soul and the body are one man, according to the doctrine which from the Athanasian Creed has been received throughout the whole of Christendom. 12. It thence appears why the Lord said of Himself in His Human:

[I am in the Father, and the Father in Me. The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.]


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