MATTHEW 11:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. The Johannine thunderbolt in Matthew — the verse that sounds unlike the Synoptic tradition and like the Gospel of John — is the comprehensive claim of mutual exclusive knowledge between Father and Son. The Son is not merely a teacher about the Father but the one through whom the Father is exclusively known. The chooses to reveal him communicates the sovereign grace of the revelation: the knowledge of the Father is given, not achieved.
Church Fathers on Matthew 11:27
Because He had said, 'I confess unto thee, Father, because thou hast hid these things from the wise,' that you should not suppose that He thus thanks the Father as though He Himself was excluded from this power, He adds, 'All things are committed to me by my Father.' Hearing the words are committed, do not admit suspicion of any thing human, for He uses this word that you may not think there be two gods unbegotten. For at the time that He was begotten He was Lord of all.
For if we conceive of this thing according to our weakness, when he who receives begins to have, he who gives begins to be without.
Or that we may not think that there is any thing less in Him than in God, therefore He says this.
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