SIXTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THE SON IS EQUAL TO THE FATHER IN POWER

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.