"The Son actively produces submission to the Father [in humanity], while the Father wills and approves submission to the Son. Thus it is that He effects our submission, makes it His own, and presents it to God."... "[Jesus] in Himself... expresses our [human] condition.
We had once been forsaken and disregarded; then we were accepted and now are saved by the sufferings of the impassible [God]," - as He cried "My God why have You forsaken me" from His cross Jesus spoke not for himself, but for all humanity; in His self-sacrifice He answered humanity's question, He did not leave us orphans.
- "On God and Christ - 'On the Son' " - Gregory of Nazianzus
"The Father indicates the outline [of His will for the world], whilst [Jesus] the Word makes a finished product, of the same realities."
