Chapter VI—The Holy Ghost, throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, made
mention of no other God or Lord, save him who is the true God.
1. Therefore neither would the Lord, nor the Holy Spirit, nor the apostles, have ever
named as God, definitely and absolutely, him who was not God, unless he were truly God;
nor would they have named any one in his own person Lord, except God the Father ruling
over all, and His Son who has received dominion from His Father over all creation, as this
passage has it: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine
enemies Thy footstool.”681 Here the [Scripture] represents to us the Father addressing the
Son; He who gave Him the inheritance of the heathen, and subjected to Him all His enemies.
Since, therefore, the Father is truly Lord, and the Son truly Lord, the Holy Spirit has fitly
designated them by the title of Lord. And again, referring to the destruction of the Sodomites,
the Scripture says, “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah fire and brim-
stone from the Lord out of heaven.”682 For it here points out that the Son, who had also
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been talking with Abraham, had received power to judge the Sodomites for their wickedness.
And this [text following] does declare the same truth: “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever; the sceptre of Thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee.”683 For the Spirit designates both
[of them] by the name, of God—both Him who is anointed as Son, and Him who does
anoint, that is, the Father. And again: “God stood in the congregation of the gods, He judges
among the gods.”684 He [here] refers to the Father and the Son, and those who have received
the adoption; but these are the Church. For she is the synagogue of God, which God—that
is, the Son Himself—has gathered by Himself. Of whom He again speaks: “The God of gods,
the Lord hath spoken, and hath called the earth.”685 Who is meant by God? He of whom
He has said, “God shall come openly, our God, and shall not keep silence;”686 that is, the
Son, who came manifested to men who said, “I have openly appeared to those who seek Me
not.”687 But of what gods [does he speak]? [Of those] to whom He says, “I have said, Ye are
gods, and all sons of the Most High.”688 To those, no doubt, who have received the grace
of the “adoption, by which we cry, Abba Father.”689
681 Ps. cx. 1.
682 Gen. xix. 24.
683 Ps. xlv. 6.
684 Ps. lxxxii. 1.
685 Ps. l. 1.
686 Ps. l. 3.
687 Isa. lxv. 1.
688 Ps. lxxxii. 6.
689 Rom. viii. 15.
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