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  1 1 |          FIRST OF ALL BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER AND LORD OMNIPOTENT,
  2 1 |         S FREE-WILL IS ASSERTED; GOD'S MERCY IN INFLICTING PENALTYON
  3 1 |         of all things believe on God the Father and Lord n Omnipotent;
  4 1 |        too, made in the image of God, to whom He imparted mind,
  5 1 | foresight, that he might imitate God; and although the first
  6 1 |          free, lest the image of God should, unfittingly be in
  7 1 |        into it by hurrying to be God under the influence of perverse
  8 1 |    counsel. Still, nevertheless, God indulgently tempered his
  9 1 |         overflowing greatness of God's works in all directions,
 10 2 |                    II. ARGUMENT. GOD IS ABOVE ALl, THINGS, HIMSELF
 11 2 |        left room for no superior God, such as some people conceive.
 12 2 |        shall mentally grasp what God is, if we shall consider
 13 2 |        in all our thinking about God, and in proportion as we
 14 2 |        more directly to consider God, so much the more the mind
 15 2 |       than Himself, who is both. God and Parent of all virtues,
 16 2 |        it may truly be said that God is that, which is such that
 17 3 |              III. ARGUMENT. THAT GOD IS THE FOUNDER OF ALL THINGS,
 18 3 |       acknowledge and know to be God, the Creator of all things--
 19 3 |    wisdom;" of whom Moses said, "God in heaven above, and in
 20 3 |       says by the prophet, "I am God, and there is none beside
 21 3 |         proving that that is not God who is made by the hand
 22 3 |         a heretic. For he is not God for whose existence the
 23 3 |          may recognise how great God is, in learning to fear
 24 3 |          is more true, recognise God as their Creator. And since
 25 3 |    immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory." For
 26 4 |         evil is a departure from God. For it cannot happen that
 27 4 |          departure from the good God. Moreover, this very thing
 28 4 |        should seem to be envy in God, it was evident whence evil
 29 4 |         therefore He says, "I am God, I change not;" in that,
 30 4 |         that He should always be God. And thus He says, "I am
 31 4 |          there remains always in God His position, in that without
 32 4 |       equal. For whatever can be God, must as God be of necessity
 33 4 |     whatever can be God, must as God be of necessity the Highest.
 34 4 |   contained--He will cease to be God; being reduced into the
 35 4 |          then rather claim to be God. Whence it results that
 36 4 |           Whence it results that God's own name also cannot be
 37 4 |        and occasions His name of God, we know that it is not
 38 4 |        be able thereby to obtain God's mercy. He is therefore
 39 5 |       INDIGNATION, AND HATRED OF GOD DESCRIBED IN THE SACRED
 40 5 |       rightly be judged to be in God. For man may be corrupted
 41 5 |     because he can be corrupted; God may not be corrupted by
 42 5 |          precedes them. For that God is angry, arises from no
 43 5 |          those, either angers of God or hatreds, or whatever
 44 5 |      avail for the corruption of God. For the diversity in us
 45 5 |        defect, cannot subsist in God, seeing that He is known
 46 5 |      body, and matter itself, in God cannot exert the force of
 47 6 |          when it says, "The Lord God smelled the smell of a good
 48 6 |       written with the finger of God;" or when the people of
 49 6 |       the earth is set forth as "God's footstool;" or when it
 50 6 |         was still speaking about God in parables according to
 51 6 |      period of the faith, not as God was, but as the people were
 52 6 |       these should be said about God, must be imputed not to
 53 6 |           must be imputed not to God, but rather to the people.
 54 6 |      erect a tabernacle, and yet God is not contained within
 55 6 |        temple is reared, and yet God is not at all bounded within
 56 6 |      temple. It is not therefore God who is limited, but the
 57 6 |        people is limited; nor is God straitened, but the understanding
 58 6 |       gave the reasons, saying, "God is a Spirit; and those therefore
 59 6 |         is not the appearance of God nor the bodily lineaments
 60 6 |     there is not any place where God is not. For neither members
 61 6 |     necessary to men, but not to God, because man's design would
 62 6 |          they are not needful to God, whose will the works attend
 63 7 |    ARGUMENT. MOREOVER, THAT WHEN GOD IS CALLED A SPIRIT, BRIGHTNESS,
 64 7 |           BRIGHTNESS, AND LIGHT, GOD IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED
 65 7 |          when the Lord says that God is a Spirit, I think that
 66 7 |      understood than merely that God is a Spirit. For although,
 67 7 |         speaks to men concerning God, in such a way as they can
 68 7 |  additions to their knowledge of God. For we find it to be written
 69 7 |       find it to be written that God is called Love, and yet
 70 7 |       from this the substance of God is not declared to be Love;
 71 7 |          is not the substance of God. But the whole that is thus
 72 7 |       whole that is thus said of God is as much as can be said,
 73 7 |        spirit, it may conjecture God to be something even greater
 74 7 |         For if "the things which God hath prepared for them that
 75 7 |       Spirit as the substance of God, you will make God a creature.
 76 7 |  substance of God, you will make God a creature. For every spirit
 77 7 |   creature. And therefore, then, God will be made. In which manner
 78 7 |        Moses, you should receive God to be fire, in saying that
 79 7 |        as, in the Old Testament, God is for this reason called
 80 8 |       VIII. ARGUMENT. IT IS THIS GOD, THEREFORE, THAT THE CHURCH
 81 8 |          RULES AND GOVERNS.~This God, then, setting aside the
 82 8 |       now call Father instead of God. And His providence has
 83 8 |      indefatigable providence of God does not reach to even the
 84 8 |          which at the command of God had been consolidated into
 85 8 |      with eyes; for the works of God must be contemplated with
 86 8 |         because all the works of God are fiery, and are not darksome,
 87 8 |           according to David, is God's chariot. "For the chariot
 88 8 |     chariot. "For the chariot of God," says he, "is multiplied
 89 8 |         which is that chariot of God with all things, both the
 90 8 |          wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are His
 91 9 |       FATHER, ALSO IN THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD GOD,
 92 9 |       GOD, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD GOD, BEING THE SAME THAT WAS
 93 9 |       Father, also on the Son of God, Christ Jesus, the Lord
 94 9 |       Christ Jesus, the Lord our God, but the Son of God--of
 95 9 |          the Son of God--of that God who is both one and alone,
 96 9 |        more say, the Son of this God, we read of as having been
 97 9 |          saying: "A Prophet will God raise up to you from your
 98 9 |        shown as Judge of all: "O God, give the King Thy judgment,
 99 10|       JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD AND TRULY MAN, AS OPPOSED
100 10|       not inherit the kingdom of God," it is not the substance
101 11|     CHRIST WAS NOT ONLY MAN, BUT GOD ALSO; THAT EVEN AS HE WAS
102 11|        SO ALSO HE WAS THE SON OF GOD.~But lest, from the fact
103 11|         Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator, was manifested
104 11|    materiality, that He was also God according to the Scriptures.
105 11|   heretics will recoil also upon God the Father, if God the Father
106 11|          upon God the Father, if God the Father could not beget
107 11|       the Father could not beget God the Son. But, moreover,
108 11|         powers as if they were a God's powers. They keep in mind
109 11|      also of asserting Him to be God from His works. For if His
110 11|        avail to assert Him to be God from His powers, neither
111 11|          not also be approved as God by His powers. We must not
112 11|         announces Christ as also God, as it announces God Himself
113 11|        also God, as it announces God Himself as man. It has as
114 11|  described Christ the Lord to be God. Because it does not set
115 11|       forth Him to be the Son of God only, but also the Son of
116 11|       speak of Him as the Son of God. So that being of both,
117 11|        He must be believed to be God who is of God; but if he
118 11|     believed to be God who is of God; but if he should not also
119 11|         if he should not also be God when be is of God, no more
120 11|        also be God when be is of God, no more should he be man
121 11|        same Jesus is called also God and the Son of God. For
122 11|          also God and the Son of God. For in the manner that
123 11|        is of Abraham, so also as God He is before Abraham himself.
124 11|        the "Son of David," so as God He is proclaimed David's
125 11|       man "under the law," so as God He is declared to be "Lord
126 11|          the condemnation, so as God He is found to have all
127 11|   subsequent to the world, so as God He is manifested to have
128 11|          been ordained by Him as God. And in the same way as
129 11|         as man after many, so as God He was before all. And in
130 11|        inferior to others, so as God He was greater than all.
131 11|        as man into heaven, so as God He had first descended thence.
132 12|         ARGUMENT. THAT CHRIST IS GOD, IS PROVED BY THE AUTHORITY
133 12|      save them by the Lord their God." If God says that He saves
134 12|          the Lord their God." If God says that He saves by God,
135 12|        God says that He saves by God, still God does not save
136 12|      that He saves by God, still God does not save except by
137 12|          hesitate to call Christ God, when he observes that He
138 12|        that He is declared to be God by the Father according
139 12|          the Scriptures? Yea, if God the Father does not save
140 12|          does not save except by God, no one can be saved by
141 12|           no one can be saved by God the Father unless he shall
142 12|      have confessed Christ to be God, in whom and by whom the
143 12|   whoever acknowledges Him to be God, may find salvation in Christ
144 12|         find salvation in Christ God; whoever does not acknowledge
145 12|        not acknowledge Him to be God, would lose salvation which
146 12|         elsewhere than in Christ God. For in the same way as
147 12|           which is, interpreted, God with us;" so Christ Himself
148 12|         world." Therefore He is" God with us;" yea, and much
149 12| therefore it is He whose name is God with us, because He also
150 12|        called Emmanuel, that is, God with us. God, therefore,
151 12|  Emmanuel, that is, God with us. God, therefore, because He is
152 12|        He is with us, was called God with us, The same prophet
153 12|        strong; fear not. Lo, our God shall return judgment; He
154 12|         the prophet says that at God's advent these should be
155 12|        that Christ is the Son of God, at whose advent and by
156 12|          Christ to be the Son of God, and God, let them declare
157 12|        to be the Son of God, and God, let them declare Him to
158 12|         longer deny Christ to be God. What, then, do they reply
159 12|      take place on the advent of God, which were manifested on
160 12|        do they receive Christ as God? For now they cannot deny
161 12|       they cannot deny Him to be God. As God the Father, or as
162 12|    cannot deny Him to be God. As God the Father, or as God the
163 12|         As God the Father, or as God the Son ? If as the Son,
164 12|        they deny that the Son of God is God? If as the Father,
165 12|      deny that the Son of God is God? If as the Father, why do
166 12|      should confess Christ to be God, seeing they have even wished
167 12|        wished to deny that He is God. He says by Habakkuk the
168 12|        by Habakkuk the prophet: "God shall come from the south,
169 12|          that it is the Almighty God the Father, then God the
170 12|    Almighty God the Father, then God the Father comes from a
171 12|           Christ is proved to be God the Father Almighty. But
172 12|    Scriptures is also said to be God, this God is rightly described
173 12|        also said to be God, this God is rightly described as
174 12|          Son, or the Father; for God is said to be about to come
175 12|      from calling Him Christ and God ? For the Scripture says
176 12|          the Scripture says that God shall come. If the Father,
177 12|       the eve of exalting Him as God, whether in wishing to call
178 13|       name is called the Word of God," and not without reason. "
179 13|        was in the beginning with God, and God was the Word."
180 13|          beginning with God, and God was the Word." Who then
181 13|        because He is the Word of God, who can shrink from declaring
182 13|    without hesitation that He is God, especially when he considers
183 13|        of man, whence the Son of God had descended as the Word,
184 13|          flesh wears the Word of God, and the Son of God assumes
185 13|      Word of God, and the Son of God assumes the frailty of the
186 13|         manifestly proved. to be God. And, nevertheless, while
187 13|         the property of none but God to know the secrets of the
188 13|   whereas it belongs to none but God to remit sins, the same
189 13|          Christ, "My Lord and my God ;" and if, besides, the
190 13|          flesh, who is over all, God blessed for evermore," writing
191 13|     Christ, reasonably Christ is God. Therefore, in this respect,
192 13|         Him, and so He is justly God; or because He is man He
193 13|    subsequent to all things, but God also, since God is prior
194 13|      things, but God also, since God is prior to all things.
195 13|          He is not man only, but God also, since all things are
196 13|    subsequent to all things, but God also, since by Him all things
197 14|       from urging that Christ is God, whom he perceives to be
198 14|        he perceives to be proved God by so many words as well
199 14|        the nature of man, but of God, that it can be present
200 14|      preceded him, in that He is God? If Christ is only man,
201 14|       the heavenly operations of God? If Christ is only man,
202 14|         him after the example of God the Father, because he is
203 14|       say that "no man hath seen God at any time, save He which
204 14|        time, save He which is of God; He hath seen God?" Because
205 14|          is of God; He hath seen God?" Because if Christ is only
206 14|       only man, He could not see God, because no man has seen
207 14|          because no man has seen God; but if, being of God, He
208 14|       seen God; but if, being of God, He has seen God, He wishes
209 14|        being of God, He has seen God, He wishes it to be understood
210 14|         man, in that He has seen God. If Christ is only man,
211 14|         was not. But the Word of God descended which was there, --
212 14|         was there, --the Word of God, I say, and God by whom
213 14|          Word of God, I say, and God by whom all things were
214 14|          heaven, but the Word of God; that is, God descended
215 14|        the Word of God; that is, God descended thence.~
216 15|        THE GOSPEL THAT CHRIST IS GOD.~If Christ is only man,
217 15|          Himself to have come as God. For the Jews, ignorant
218 15|         descended thence must be God, seeing that man could not
219 15|          world, is He only man ? God forbid ! But consider what
220 15|        not made in heaven. He is God, therefore, who is from
221 15|          wherefore Christ is not God only, but man also. As reasonably
222 15|           For man is joined with God, and God is linked with
223 15|          is joined with God, and God is linked with man. But
224 15|          as to believe Him to be God, desirous to overcome their
225 15|    proceeded forth and came from God," when it is evident that
226 15|     evident that man was made by God, and did not proceed forth
227 15|        man He proceeded not from God, thus the Word of God proceeded,
228 15|       from God, thus the Word of God proceeded, of whom it is
229 15|        which, because it is from God, is with reason also with
230 15|         is with reason also with God. And this, too, since it
231 15|         all things were made (is God). "And God," says he, "was
232 15|         were made (is God). "And God," says he, "was the Word."
233 15|         was the Word." Therefore God proceeded from God, in that
234 15|     Therefore God proceeded from God, in that the Word which
235 15|          Word which proceeded is God, who proceeded forth from
236 15|         who proceeded forth from God. If Christ is only man,
237 15|          He proves Himself to be God by offering divinity, which
238 15|   divinity, which if He were not God He could not give. If Christ
239 15|       not deceive, if He is also God, and was before Abraham.
240 15|     deceiver; if He gives, He is God. But He does not deceive,
241 15|        promises. Therefore He is God who proffers eternal salvation,
242 15|          one," if He is not both God and the Son?--who may therefore
243 15|         Him, by which He is also God; which when the Jews thought
244 15|        in these discourses to be God, and therefore rushed at
245 15|        gods to whom the words of God were given, and the Scriptures
246 15|          I said, I am the Son of God." By which words He did
247 15|       did not deny Himself to be God, but rather He confirmed
248 15|        the assertion that He was God. For because, undoubtedly,
249 15|      gods unto whom the words of God were given, much more is
250 15|      were given, much more is He God who is found to be superior
251 15|         be thus understood to be God, as the Son of God, and
252 15|         to be God, as the Son of God, and He would not wish to
253 15|          I said, I am the Son of God." Thus, as far as pertains
254 15|    proved that He was the Son of God. He is God, therefore, but
255 15|        was the Son of God. He is God, therefore, but God in such
256 15|        He is God, therefore, but God in such a manner as to be
257 16|    GOSPEL HE PROVES CHRIST TO BE GOD.~If Christ was only man,
258 16|      Christ is not man only, but God also, in whom he who believes
259 16|         fact proves Christ to be God, from whom He has received
260 16|          Thee, the only and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
261 16|       should be understood to be God, why did He add, "And Jesus
262 16|         wished to be received as God also? Because if He had
263 16|    wished to be understood to be God, He would have added, "And
264 16|          associated Himself with God, as He wished to be understood
265 16|        by this conjunction to be God also, as He is. We must
266 16|        on the Lord, the one true God, and consequently on Him
267 16|    wished to be understood to be God also: for He would have
268 16|    wished to be understood to be God. He would have placed Himself
269 16|         have linked Himself with God had He not known Himself
270 16|          not known Himself to be God also. But in this case He
271 16|          reason links Himself to God, that He might establish
272 16|     world was, He had glory with God, and maintained His glory
273 16|       the world. He is therefore God, because He was before the
274 16|      many others. For since with God the order of all, both persons
275 17|        and rounded by the Son of God, that is, by the Word of
276 17|          that is, by the Word of God? For He says the same that
277 17|      Moses, moreover, introduces God commanding that there should
278 17|        besides that the Word was God, and that all things were
279 17|        to wit, Christ the Son of God; whom both on receiving
280 17|          world to be the Word of God, and God, we reasonably,
281 17|          be the Word of God, and God, we reasonably, according
282 17|   believe and hold to be as well God as man, Christ Jesus. What
283 17|        the same Moses introduces God saying, "Let us make man
284 17|       likeness;" and below, "And God made man; in the image of
285 17|        made man; in the image of God made He him, male and female
286 17|          shown, it is the Son of God by whom all things were
287 17|      certainly it was the Son of God by whom also man was ordained,
288 17|        were made. Moreover, when God commands that man should
289 17|        be made, He is said to be God who makes man; but the Son
290 17|        makes man; but the Son of God makes man, that is to say,
291 17|      that is to say, the Word of God, "by whom all things were
292 17|          us: therefore Christ is God; therefore man was made
293 17|          Christ as by the Son of God. But God made man in the
294 17|        as by the Son of God. But God made man in the image of
295 17|         made man in the image of God; He is therefore God who
296 17|          of God; He is therefore God who made man in the image
297 17|         made man in the image of God; therefore Christ is God:
298 17|         God; therefore Christ is God: so that with reason neither
299 17|        presume Christ the Son of God and man to be only man,
300 17|          to be only man, and not God also, do so in opposition
301 17|      Moses everywhere introduces God the Father infinite and
302 17|          nevertheless introduces God descending to consider the
303 17|    pretend here to have been the God who descended to that tower,
304 17|          those men at that time? God the Father? Then thus He
305 17|      Deuteronomy we observe that God told these things, and that
306 17|      told these things, and that God said, where it is written, "
307 17|          number of the angels of God." Neither, therefore, did
308 17|     things," that is, the Son of God, the Word of God. But the
309 17|          Son of God, the Word of God. But the Word of God was
310 17|          of God. But the Word of God was made flesh, and dwelt
311 17|    Christ must be declared to be God.~
312 18|        SEEN OF ABRAHAM IS CALLED GOD; WHICH CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD
313 18|        us in another place that "God was seen of Abraham." And
314 18|        the same Moses hears from God, that "no man can see God
315 18|        God, that "no man can see God and live." If God cannot
316 18|        can see God and live." If God cannot be seen, how was
317 18|          cannot be seen, how was God seen? Or if He was seen,
318 18|          says, "No man hath seen God at any time;" and the Apostle
319 18|       not lie; therefore, truly, God was seen. Whence it may
320 18|       the image of the invisible God, as the imperfection and
321 18|       sometimes even then to see God the Father in the image
322 18|       the Father in the image of God, that is, in the Son of
323 18|           that is, in the Son of God. For gradually and by progression
324 18|        being able one day to see God the Father. For the things
325 18|      also--that is, the image of God, and the Son of God--is
326 18|       may one day be able to see God the Father Himself also
327 18|  hindered from being able to see God the Father, whom it has
328 18|          is seen; but the Son of God is the Word of God: and
329 18|        Son of God is the Word of God: and the Word of God was
330 18|          of God: and the Word of God was made flesh, and dwelt
331 18|      should hesitate to call Him God, who in so many ways is
332 18|        acknowledged to be proved God? And if, moreover, the angel
333 18|          the angel had also been God. Let them ask what the heretics
334 18|         For He is declared to be God. But far be it from us to
335 18|        far be it from us to call God the Father an angel, lest
336 18|      angel. How then shall He be God if He was an an gel? Since
337 18|       understand it to have been God the Son, who, because He
338 18|       Son, who, because He is of God, is rightly called God,
339 18|        of God, is rightly called God, because He is the Son of
340 18|         because He is the Son of God. But, because He is subjected
341 18|         lest he should be called God; yet it is suited to the
342 18|    Christ that He should be both God because He is the Son of
343 18|         because He is the Son of God, and should be an angel
344 18|    declare Him to have been also God, when they read in the Old
345 18|      Moses added the instance of God seen of Abraham at the oak
346 18|          suffer; and learns that God had come down on account
347 18|        usual, is an angel called God? Unless because, in order
348 18|        to the angel, it was only God the Son, who also is God,
349 18|         God the Son, who also is God, who was seen by Abraham,
350 18|         prophet in the person of God: "I have overthrown you,
351 18|       overturned Sodom, that is, God overturned Sodom; but in
352 18|      Lord. And this Lord was the God seen by Abraham; and this
353 18|        seen by Abraham; and this God was the guest of Abraham,
354 18| hospitality. But this the Son of God, "The Lord rained from the
355 18|          And this is the Word of God. And the Word of God was
356 18|          of God. And the Word of God was made flesh, and dwelt
357 18|          Christ is both Lord and God, who was not otherwise seen
358 18|          Abraham, except that as God the Word He was begotten
359 18|          Word He was begotten of God the Father before Abraham
360 18|    Scripture, the same Angel and God visits and consoles the
361 18|        weeping and lamentation, "God heard," says the Scripture, "
362 18|          Having told that it was God who heard the voice of the
363 18|         angel whom it had called God, and pronouncing Him to
364 18|        an angel; which Angel and God moreover promises to Hagar
365 18|         kind of power belongs to God, and cannot belong to an
366 18|       also He is confirmed to be God, since He is able to do
367 18|     added by the Scripture: "And God opened her eyes, and she
368 18|         and gave to the lad: and God was with the lad." If, then,
369 18|         the lad." If, then, this God was with the Lord, who opened
370 18|       the lad's thirst, and this God who calls her from heaven
371 18|        lad crying, He was rather God; is not understood to be
372 18|         in like manner as He was God also. And since this cannot
373 18|    fitting to the Father, who is God only, but may be applicable
374 18|          declared to be not only God, but angel also, it manifestly
375 18|       rather Christ, since He is God; and to Him also is applied
376 18|        must either make an angel God, or we must reckon God the
377 18|     angel God, or we must reckon God the Father Almighty among
378 19|              XIX. ARGUMENT. THAT GOD ALSO APPEARED TO JACOB AS
379 19|        ANGEL; NAMELY, THE SON OF GOD.~What if in another place
380 19|         read in like manner that God was described as an angel?
381 19|        he says that the angel of God had said to him in a dream, "
382 19|          hath done to thee. I am God, who appeared to thee in
383 19|          to thee in the place of God, where thou anointedst for
384 19|      with thee." If the Angel of God speaks thus to Jacob, and
385 19|         mentions and says, "I am God, who appeared unto thee
386 19|        unto thee in the house of God," we see without any hesitation
387 19|        be not only an angel, but God also; because He speaks
388 19|         by Jacob in the place of God, and He does not say, in
389 19|          It is then the place of God, and He also is God. Moreover,
390 19|     place of God, and He also is God. Moreover, it is written
391 19|   written simply in the place of God, for it is not said in the
392 19|       the place of the angel and God, but only of God; and He
393 19|       angel and God, but only of God; and He who promises those
394 19|         is manifested to be both God and Angel, so that reasonably
395 19|        between Him who is called God only, and Him who is declared
396 19|        who is declared to be not God simply, but Angel also.
397 19|          also avow Himself to be God, and should bear witness
398 19|         as angel only, but as to God, a vow can be vowed; it
399 19|          Father, but as the Son, God and Angel. Moreover, if
400 19|        that He is both Angel and God. To all these things, moreover,
401 19|      declared Him both Angel and God, so the same divine Scripture
402 19|   declares Him also both man and God, expressing thereby what
403 19|         thou hast prevailed with God, and thou an powerful with
404 19|         that place the Vision of God: for I have seen the Lord
405 19|       crossed over the Vision of God, but he halted upon his
406 19|       lsrael is the man who sees God, the Lord was beautifully
407 19|        wrestling with Jacob, but God also. Certainly Jacob saw
408 19|        also. Certainly Jacob saw God, with whom he wrestled,
409 19|         thou hast prevailed with God, and art powerful with men."
410 19|          wrestled, the Vision of God. He, moreover, superadded
411 19|         offered of the Vision of God: "For I have seen," said
412 19|          I have seen," said he, "God face to face, and my soul
413 19|         saved." Moreover, he saw God, with whom he wrestled as
414 19|         asked a blessing as from God. Thus he wrestled with God
415 19|       God. Thus he wrestled with God and with man; and thus truly
416 19| fulfilled, was not man only, but God also, since even that very
417 19|          have proved Him man and God? And yet, even after this,
418 19|          cease to call the Angel God, and to pronounce God the
419 19|      Angel God, and to pronounce God the Angel. For when this
420 19|          the lads, he said, "The God which fed me from my youth
421 19|        Angel, whom he had called God, as in the end of his discourse,
422 19|          one to be understood as God, and the other as an angel,
423 19|          that the same person is God and Angel. But yet He cannot
424 19|         He cannot be received as God the Father; but as God and
425 19|        as God the Father; but as God and Angel, as Christ He
426 19|      shrink from pronouncing Him God also, when he perceives
427 19|       the crossed hands, as both God and Angel.~
428 20|        HOLY SCRIPTURE THAT HE IS GOD ALSO.~But if some heretic,
429 20|           rightly also Christ is God. And if any angel at all
430 20|          to Christ can be called God, and this, if it be said,
431 20|       Christ, Himself the Son of God, for Him to be pronounced
432 20|         for Him to be pronounced God. For if an angel who is
433 20|          to Christ is exalted as God, much more, and more consistently,
434 20|         subjected, be said to be God. For it is not suitable
435 20|       and yet an angel is called god, rather by consequence is
436 20| consequence is Christ said to be God, who is discovered to be
437 20|         than all angels. And if "God standeth in the assembly
438 20|       the gods, and in the midst God distinguisheth between the
439 20|        stood in the synagogue as God,--judging, to wit, between
440 20|        more shall He be esteemed God, who not only is said to
441 20|         is said to have stood as God in the synagogue of the
442 20|    rather shall He be said to be God, who not only does not fall
443 20|            I have made thee as a god to Pharaoh," it should be
444 20|       creature, as both Lord and God? And in the former case
445 20|  hesitation attains that name of God, how much more shall He
446 21|       the image of the invisible God ;" "who came down from heaven;"
447 21|         the son of man, but also God, because He is the Son of
448 21|         because He is the Son of God? And if by the apostle Christ
449 21|       made the "Mediator between God and man" is revealed to
450 21|       have associated in Himself God and man. And if the same
451 21|         we know that the Word of God was invested with the substance
452 21|   reasonably, it was the Word of God who put off the flesh, and
453 21|        Therefore in Christ it is God who is invested, and moreover
454 21|        we have said, the Word of God, who is revealed to be at
455 21|        who washes is the Word of God, who, in order that He might
456 21|        it He is manifested to be God.~
457 22|   although He was in the form of God, did not think it robbery
458 22|          He should be equal with God; but emptied Himself, taking
459 22|        the cross. Wherefore also God hath highly exalted Him,
460 22|         is Lord, in the glory of God the Father?" "Who, although
461 22|   although He was in the form of God," he says. If Christ had
462 22|          of as in "the image" of God, not "in the form" of God.
463 22|        God, not "in the form" of God. For we know that man was
464 22|           not after the form, of God. Who then is that angel
465 22|          was made in the form of God? But neither do we read
466 22|        do we read of the form of God in angels, except because
467 22|      royal above all--the Son of God, the Word of God, the imitator
468 22|          Son of God, the Word of God, the imitator of all His
469 22|         declared--in the form of God the Father. And He is reasonably
470 22|    affirmed to be in the form of God, in that He Himself, being
471 22|          every creature, is also God after the example of the
472 22|           that He should be both God of all and should be Lord,
473 22|       made known from Himself as God in the form of God the Father.
474 22|    Himself as God in the form of God the Father. He then, although
475 22|   although He was in the form of God, thought it not robbery
476 22|          He should be equal with God. For although He remembered
477 22|        He remembered that He was God from God the Father, He
478 22|  remembered that He was God from God the Father, He never either
479 22|          associated Himself with God the Father, mindful that
480 22|        of equalling Himself with God the Father; but, on the
481 22|      none other than the name of God. For since it belongs to
482 22|          For since it belongs to God alone to be above all things,
483 22|      that the name which is that God's who is above all things,
484 22|  although He was "in the form of God, thought it not robbery
485 22|         for Him to be equal with God." For neither, if Christ
486 22|      neither, if Christ were not God, would every knee bend itself
487 22|        said to be in the form of God, and since it is shown that
488 22|      furtherance of the glory of God the Father; consequently
489 22|          is shown to be Lord and God, which the heretics will
490 23|  HERETICS HAVE THOUGHT HIM TO BE GOD THE FATHER, OTHERS THAT
491 23|          OTHERS THAT HE WAS ONLY GOD WITHOUT THE FLESH.~In this
492 23|          in the Scriptures to be God, that many heretics, moved
493 23|       think Him not the Son, but God the Father Himself. And
494 23|         of Christ, who is so far God, except as Son of God, born
495 23|        far God, except as Son of God, born of God, that very
496 23|    except as Son of God, born of God, that very many heretics--
497 23|          have so accepted Him as God, as to think that He must
498 23|         considered whether He is God or not, since His authority
499 23|     above, they have thought Him God the Father Himself, and
500 23|         they perceived Him to be God, must be the Father. Moreover,