"All power has been given to me"

This article presents an excerpt from the fourth discourse of *The Life in Christ* by Nicolas Cabasilas, a fourteenth-century Byzantine theologian, translated from the Greek by Michel Stavrou and originally published in the Greek journal *Synaxi*. It is a theological meditation on the nature of Christ's power based on the Gospel saying "All power has been given to me." The central idea is that Christ's kingship is exercised neither through fear nor through coercion, but through service and love: it is by taking on the condition of a slave unto death on the cross that Christ freely subjects human wills. The theological contribution lies in the distinction between dominion over nature, acquired through creation, and dominion over the will, acquired through the Incarnation and Redemption, thereby constituting the fully authentic kingship of Christ.