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John 14:10 - Exposition

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me ? Philip had heard in an inverted order these very words (see John 10:38 ). He might have grasped their meaning; two aspects of the same Divine truth or reality—the reciprocal fellowship between the Father and the Son, between the Father and the Effulgence of the Father's glory who is now the God-Man. I am in the Father, I the God-Man am in the Father, as the Loges has ever been in him and proceeding from him. I, who was forever in the bosom of the Father in heaven though on earth, am in the Father now, as the sun dwells in its own effluent light; and the Father is in me, seeing I am the Image of his substance, the Agent of his purpose, the Speaker of his words, the Doer of his works. The words ( ῥήματα ) which I speak ( λέγω , R.T.) unto you—those words which are "spirit and life" ( John 6:63 ), those "words of eternal life," according to Peter's grand confession ( John 6:68 , John 6:69 )—I do not utter ( λαλῶ ) from myself; i.e. they are the words of the Father, and also the proof that I am in the Father, but the Father worketh always and ever more in and through the Son, these works which may seem to be mine as the Son of man, but are the operation of the Father himself, he who abides in the Son. And the Father abiding in me, doeth £ his works. These works of mine ( ἔργα ) are all signs ( σημεῖα ) of my relation to the Father. They are indications to Philip of the nature, and quality, and character, and feeling towards him of the Father himself.

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