Tag: patristics
Writing about humility, Paul reaches for the highest thing he knows: Yahweh's irrevocable oath from Isaiah 45 — "I am God, and there is no other" — and applies it directly to Jesus. Every knee. Every tongue. The divine name. This article examines what Paul is doing, answers three unitarian objections, and establishes from Scripture and the early Fathers that the identification holds.
A Catholic patristics response engaging modern subordinationist readings of St. Ignatius of Antioch — the archives passage of Philadelphians 8:2, the Word-from-silence of Magnesians 8:2, the reverence of the bishop, the modalism charge against Ephesians 3:2, and the question of apostolic continuity. Argued from cumulative force, with the strongest opposing readings acknowledged.
John 12:41 makes two claims that together carry the Trinitarian argument: that Isaiah saw Jesus's glory, and that the glory John attributes to Jesus elsewhere in his Gospel is pre-temporal Shekinah possessed παρὰ σοί before creation. Even granting the unitarian referent of Isaiah 52–53, the Servant's glorification read through John 17:5 is restoration of co-possessed eternal glory, not the elevation of a creature.
A supplement to 'The Glory Isaiah Saw,' engaging the strongest published form of the unitarian reading of John 12:41 — taking up its central question: Where did Isaiah speak about him in Isaiah 6?
A Catholic engagement with the published unitarian case for John 12:41. The grammar is granted; the lexical range is granted; and the pre-Nicene chain — Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen — is set out from primary sources. The glory Isaiah saw is the glory of the eternal Son, and the glory the rulers refused.
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