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But to end let us see the addition with which you sum up your preceding
blasphemies. Your words are, "Who gave such glory to Christ?" You name
glory in order to degrade Him. For by the assertion that the Lord was
endowed with glory, in saying that He received it you blasphemously imply
that He stood in need of it. For your perverse notion suggests that the
generosity of the giver shows the need of the receiver. O miserable impiety
of yours! and where is that which Divinity itself once foretold of the Lord
Jesus Christ ascending into heaven? Saying: "Lift up your heads, and the
King of glory shall come in." And when He (after the fashion of Divine
utterances) had made answer to Himself as if in the character of an
inquirer: "Who is the King of glory?" at once He adds: "The Lord strong and
mighty, the Lord mighty in battle:" showing under the figure of a battle
fought, the victory of the Lord in His triumph. Then when, to complete the
exposition of it, He had repeated the words of the utterance quoted above,
He showed by the following conclusion the majesty of the Lord as He entered
heaven, saying "The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory." On purpose
that the fact of His taking a body might not interfere with the glory of
His mighty Divinity, He taught that the same Person was Lord of hosts and
King of heavenly glory, whom He had previously proclaimed Victor in the
battle below. Go now and say that the glory was given to the Lord, when
both prophecy has said that He was the King of glory, and He Himself also
has testified of Himself as follows: "When the Son of man shall come in His
glory." Refute it, if you can, and contradict this; viz., that whereas
He testifies that He has glory of His own, you say that He has received
Another's. Although we maintain that He has His own glory, in such a way
that we do not deny that His very property of glory is common to Him with
the Father and the Holy Ghost. For whatever God possesses belongs to the
Godhead: and the kingdom of glory belongs to the Son of God in such a way
that it is not kept back from belonging to the entire Godhead.
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