10.  Thus much then at present, in the way of a digression, to put you in remembrance.  Let me, however, add yet another testimony in proof that God is called the Father of men in an improper sense.  For when in Esaias God is addressed thus, For Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us Is. lxiii. 16., and Sarah travailed not with us Ib. li. 2., need we inquire further on this point?  And if the Psalmist says, Let them be troubled from His countenance, the Father of the fatherless, and Judge of the widows Ps. lxviii. 5.  Cyril quotes as usual from the Septuagint (Ps. lxvii. 6), where the clause ταραχθήσονται ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, answering to nothing in the Hebrew, is evidently an interpolation, and may have crept in from a marginal quotation of Is. lxiv. 2., is it not manifest to all, that when God is called the Father of orphans who have lately lost their own fathers, He is so named not as begetting them of Himself, but as caring for them and shielding them.  But whereas God, as we have said, is in an improper sense the Father of men, of Christ alone He is the Father by nature, not by adoption:  and the Father of men in time, but of Christ before all time, as He saith, And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was John xvii. 5..