72. Otherwise, if our adversaries will understand this passage as referred to the Father, then the rest of the record does not agree with it. For the Father did not appear to Abraham, nor did Abraham wash the feet of God the Father, but the feet of Him in Whom is the image of the man that shall be. 1 John iii. 2, 3; Gen. xviii. 4. Moreover, the Son of God saith, “Abraham saw My day, and rejoiced.” S. John viii. 56. It is He, therefore, Who sware by Himself, [and] Whom Abraham saw.