Tertullian
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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…
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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…
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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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A Catholic and Eastern Orthodox response to Jimmy Akin’s Divine Council reading of Genesis 1:26 — from Dei Verbum, the Fathers, the Talmud, and the Targums.
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The Nicene Creed does not demand blind assent. It demands exegetical proof. This article delivers it: complete NA28 Greek morphology of John 10 and the Pauline εἷς corpus, seven Church Fathers from Justin Martyr to Augustine, four Ecumenical Councils, Aquinas, and the Theotokos — all converging on one verdict: consubstantial with the Father.
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