Francis Patrick Kenrick

As the Father is the first Divine Person, His operation is first con^ ceived. The concurrence of the Son is represented as an action puided by His knowledge of the act of the Father. St. Cyril remarks, that it is not said that the Son cannot do any thing but what the Father allows Him to do, which would imply a defect of power, but what He sees the Father doing, which implies only knowledge. St. Augustin says: "The Father does not do works which the Son sees distinct from those of the Son, performed in consequence of what He saw the Father do, but the same works are common to the Father and the Son : for He adds : what things soever He doeth, these also the Son doeth in like manner."