“How so? Even because, (as He afterwards declares, ) "I have not spoken from myself, but the Father which sent me: He hath given me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak." For "the Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know when I ought to speak" the word which I actually sp…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Praxeas
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49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
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47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
— John 12:49 —
50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.