51. If¹⁰⁶ then, they preached that He was God, and the Son of God, and that He was with the Father before He came among men ; Why should they not have especially added to this, that they believed what was adverse to have been impossible and incredible ? For they must have justly thought it impossible, that these acts could have been

those of men ; but, on the contrary, those of God, even the more though no one would say (this).