And lo a voice from heaven, saying,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Non occ.: Not as before by Moses and the Prophets, neither in type or figure did the Father teach that the Son should come, but openly showed Him to be already come, “This is my Son.”.
Fulgent. de Fide ad Petrum. c. 9: Though Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one nature, yet do thou hold most firmly that They be Three Persons; that it is the Father alone who said, “this is my beloved Son;” the Son alone over whom that voice of the Father was heard; and the Holy Spirit alone who in the likeness ofa dove descended on Christ at His baptism.
de Trin. 4. 21: Here are deeds of the whole Trinity. In their own substance indeed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One without interval of either place or time; but in my mouth they are three separate words, and cannot be pronounced at the same time, and in written letters they fill each their several places. By this comparison may be understood how the Trinity in Itself indivisible maybe manifested dividedly in the likeness of a visible creation. That the voiceis that of the Father only is manifest from the words, “This is my Son.”.
in Joann. tr. 14. 11: The Father loves the Son, but as a father should, not as a master may love a servant; and that as an own Son, not an adopted; therefore He adds, “in whom I am well-pleased.”
