John 10:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I and my Father are one.— The Arians affirm that the sense of this passage is, "My Father and I are the same, in power and in will; so that if you oppose my will, you oppose his; and if you take my sheep out of my hand, you must at the same time overcome him, and take them out of his hand likewise." But if we attend, not only to the obvious meaning of these plain and strong words compared with other passages of scripture, but to their connection also, and the sense in which the Jews evidently took them, they utterly subvert the whole Arian scheme, and so fully demonstrate the Divinityof our blessed Redeemer, that they may be fairly left to speak for themselves, without any laboured comment. How widely different that sense is in which Christians are said to be one with God, Ch. John 17:21 will sufficiently appear by considering how flagrantlyabsurd and blasphemous it would be to draw that inference from their union with God, which Christ does from his. St. Augustin has well observed, that this is a very strong text to prove the divinity of Christ. "Mark in it, says he, both are, and one;—and you will be safe as well from Scylla as Charybdis. 'One' delivers you from Arius, who denies the eternal divinity of Christ: 'Are' delivers you from Sabellius, who denies a distinction of persons in the godhead." See for a proof of this same point, Isaiah 9:6. Jeremiah 23:6. Micah 5:2.