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This article explains the following words of our Lord:
"The Son cannot do anything of Himself, but what He
seeth the Father doing, "[591] and," or
whatsoever He[the Father] doth, these the Son also
doth in like manner."[592]
Reply. The affirmative reply is of faith. The reason
is that the power of acting follows the perfection of the
nature, which is numerically the same in the Father and
in the Son.
Reply to the first objection. But the Son has this
power as He has His nature from the Father.
Reply to the third objection. St. Thomas recalls what
was said in the reply to the second objection in the fourth
article.
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