For none of these plainly declared His Godhead, as John does when he makes Him say, \u201cI am the light of the world,\u201d \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life,\u201d \u201cI am the resurrection,\u201d \u201cI am the door,\u201d \u201cI am the good shepherd;\u201d and in the Apocalypse, \u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.\u201d … No one can apprehend the meaning of it except he have lain on Jesus\u2019 breast and received from Jesus Mary to be his mother also. Such an one must he become who is to be another John, and to have shown to him, like John, by Jesus Himself Jesus as He is. … Jesus says to His mother, \u201cWoman, behold thy son,\u201d and not \u201cBehold you have this son also,\u201d then He virtually said to her, \u201cLo, this is Jesus, whom thou didst bear.” Every one who is perfect lives himself no longer, but Christ lives in him; and if Christ lives in him, then it is said of him to Mary, \u201cBehold thy son Christ.\u201d
\n— Origen, Commentary on John Bk. I Ch. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For none of these plainly declared His Godhead, as John does when he makes Him say, \u201cI am the light of the world,\u201d \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life,\u201d \u201cI am the resurrection,\u201d \u201cI am the door,\u201d \u201cI am the good shepherd;\u201d and in the Apocalypse, \u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.\u201d … No one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21877,"url":"https:\/\/nemoslibrary.com\/patristics\/eusebius-dionysius-on-the-apocalypse\/","url_meta":{"origin":429,"position":0},"title":"Eusebius: Dionysius on the Apocalypse","author":"Nemo","date":"January 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Some before us have set aside and rejected the [Apocalypse] altogether, criticising it chapter by chapter, and pronouncing it without sense or argument, and maintaining that the title is fraudulent. 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