The Father And The Son And Truth

Sed qui misit me, verax est. Videte quemadmodum Patri dat gloriam aequalis Filius Patri. Exemplum enim nobis praebet, gloriam dare Deo, gloriam Dei quaerere, non nostram: quasi diceret, O homo fidelis, si ego Filius Patris, aequalis Patri, consubstantialis Patri, coaeternus Patri, do gloriam ei, a quo sum: quomodo tu superbus es apud eum, cujus es servus? Multa, inquit, habeo de vobis loqui, et judicare; sed qui misit me, verax est, tanquam diceret, ideo verum dico, quia filius veracis, veritas sum. Pater veritas est, Filius veritas. Ait enim apertisime ipse Dominus, Ego sum via, et veritas, et vita. Ergo si Filius veritas, Pater quid, nisi quod ait, veritas? Qui me misit, verax est. Filius veritas, Pater verax est, sed non a veritate. Filius veritas, sed a Patre, quia Filius a Patre, non a seipso, et ideo ait alio loco: A meipso non veni, id est, a meipso non sum. Pater utique verax est, non participando veritatem, sed generando veritatem, quia Pater genuit Filium, qui de seipso ait: Ego sum via, et veritas. Cum autem dixisset Dominus Jesus: Verax est, qui me misit, non intellexerunt illi, quod de Patre eis dicebat; necdum habuerunt oculos cordis apertos, ut intelligere possent aequalitatem veracis et veritatis. Sanctus Beda, In Ioannis Evangelium Expositio, Liber I, Caput VIII Source: Migne PL 92.745c-746a

But He who sent me is true. 1 Note how the equal Son gives glory to the Father. He gives it as an example for us to give glory to God and to seek the glory of God and not our own, as if He were to say, 'O faithful man, if I, the Son of the Father, equal to the Father, consubstantial to the Father, coeternal with the Father, give glory to Him from whom I am, how shall you be proud before Him, you who are his servant? 'Many things I have to tell you and judge,' He says, 'but He who sent me is true,' 1  as if He were to say, 'Therefore I speak the truth, because I am the Son of Him who is true, and I am the truth. The Father is truth, the Son is truth.' For the Lord openly says, 'I am the way and the truth and the life.' 2 Therefore if the Son is truth, what is the Father, unless, as He said, the truth? 'He who sent me is true.' The Son is truth, the Father is true, but not from truth. The Son is truth, but from the Father, because the Son is from the Father and not from Himself, and therefore in another place He says, 'I did not come from myself,' 3 that is, I am not from myself. So the Father is true, and not by participating in the truth but in generating the truth because the Father begat the Son, He who says about Himself, 'I am the way and the truth.' But when the Lord Jesus had said, 'He who sent me is true,' they did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father, for the eyes of the heart was not yet open, so that they were able to understand the equality of the one who is true and the truth. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 1, Chapter 8 1 Jn 8.26 2 Jn 14.6 3 Jn 8.42