Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they taried with him that day: and it was about the tenth houre. 40And Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the two that had heard of John, and followed him. 41He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found [1] Messias, which is being interpreted, Christ. 42And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus ″ looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the sonne of Jona: thou shalt be called [2] Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter. 43On the morow he would goe forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philippe. And Jesus saith to him: Follow me. 44And Philippe was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrew and Peter. 45Philippe findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: Him whom Moyses in the law, and the Prophets wrote of, we have found, Jesus the sonne of Joseph, of Nazareth. 46And Nathanael said to him: From Nazareth can there be any good? Philippe saith to him: Come and see. The Ghospel in a votive Masse of the holy Angels.47Jesus saw Nathanael comming to him, and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite in very deed, in whom there is no guile. 48Nathanael saith to him: How knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before that Philippe did cal thee, when thou wast under the figtree, I saw thee. 49Nathanael answered him and saith: Rabbi, thou art the Sonne of God, thou art the King of Israel. 50Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the figtree, thou beleevest; greater then these things shalt thou see. 51And he saith to him: Amen Amen I say to you, You shal see the Heaven opened, and the Gen. 28, 22.* Angels of God ascending and descending, upon the Sonne of man.✠
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. II.
How God the Sonne is call the WORD.1. Was the Word.) The second Person in Trinitie which is the natural, only, and eternal Sonne of God the Father, is called the WORD: not as the holy Scriptures or speaches of the Prophets and Apostles (written and spoken by Gods commandement for the uttering of his divine wil towards man) be called his word, but in a more divine, eminent and ineffable sort, to expresse unto us in a sort, by a terme agreable to our capacitie, that the Sonne of God so is and so from everlasting is borne of God the Father, as our prime concept (which is our internal and mental word) is and issueth out of our intelligence and mind. This WORD then, Sonne, or second Person in the holy Trinitie, was and had his being then already, when other creatures (of what sort soever) had but their beginning, and therfore cannot be a creature, as many Heretikes before the writing of this Ghospel thought, and as the Arrians after taught. And this first sentence of the Ghospel not only the faithful, but the The PlatonikesPlatonikes did so admire Augu. de Civ. Dei. li. 10. c. 29.(as S. Augustine writeth) that they wished it to be written in gold.
The WORD coeternal with the Father, distinct in Person and of the Father.1. With God.) Because a man might say; If the WORD were before any thing was created, where or how could he be? the Evangelist preventing that carnal concept, saith first, that he was with God, whose being dependeth not upon time, place, space, or any other creatures, al which were made by him. Secondly, he giveth us to understand, that the WORD hath his proper subsistence or personalitie distinct from God the Father, whereby Sabellius the old Heretike is refuted. Thirdly, here is insinuated the order of these two persons, one towardes the other, to wit, that this Sonne is with and of the Father, and not the Father of the Sonne. Fourthly, you may
