Authority received in emptying; exalted Word returns to own seat

The Father himself, as having a Son resembling him in every respect and equal in glory and equal in working. And the Son has shown this, having abolished death and having raised from the dead his own temple. Yet he receives authority over all again as we do and humanly, although he reigns over the wholes divinely. And the Father distributes to those given to the Son the eternal life—and this is himself; for he said: “I am the resurrection and the life.” Therefore even if he should be said to receive glory from the Father, and authority and kingship over all, the receiving is to be referred to the measures of the emptying; yet one must know that he is also lord of glory as God and co-throned with the Father, and in no way short of the superiority and glory of the one who begot him, as far as concerns the nature of the deity.

“Therefore, having been exalted by the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you see and hear. For David did not go up into the heavens; yet he himself says: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right until I put your enemies as a footstool of your feet.” In these we may behold the whole mystery of the Only-begotten’s becoming human. For existing in the form and equality of the Father, the God-Word from him—the all-powerful right hand and all-working hand—is said to have been emptied because of the human, yet is exalted again not into a foreign dignity and not by crossing into what had not long belonged to him, but into what he was; and the Word, having appeared, is for this reason also co-seated with God and Father.