336 NOVATIAN THE ROMAN PRESBYTER could possessanything,unlesshe himself should firstbe in existenceto keep anything. But now Christhas the glory before the foundationof the world ; thereforeHe Himself was beforethe foundationof theworld. For unlessHe were beforethe foundationof the world,He couldnot have glory before the foundationof the world,sinceHe Himself was not in existence.But indeed man could not have glory beforethe foundationof the world,seeingthathe was after the world; but Christ had— thereforeHe was beforethe world. ThereforeHe was not man only,seeingthat He was before the world. He is thereforeGod, because He was before the world, and held His glory before the world. Neither letthisbe explainedby predestination,sincethisis not so expressed,or letthem add thiswho think so; but woe isdenounced to them who add to,even as to thosewho take away from, thatwhich iswritten. Therefore thatmay not be said,which may not he added. And thus,predestina tionbeing setaside,seeingitisnot so laiddown, Christwas in substancebeforethe foundationof the world. For He is "the Word by which all things were made, and without which nothingwas made." Because even if He issaidto be gloriousin predestination,and that this predestination was before the foundationof the world,letorder be main tained,and before Him a considerablenumber of men was destinedto glory. For in respectof that destina tion,Christ willbe perceivedto be lessthan othersifHe is designatedsubsequentto them. For if thisglorywasin predestination,Christ receivedthat predestinationto glory lastof all;for priorto Him Adam willbe seen to have been predestinated,and Abel, and Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham, and many others. For sincewith God theorder of all,both personsand things,isarranged,many willbe said tohave been predestinatedbeforethispredestinationof Christ to glory. And on these terms Christ is discoveredtobe inferiorto other men, although He is reallyfound to be betterand greater,and more ancientthan the angelsthem selves. Either,then,letallthese thingsbe seton one side, that Christ'sdivinitymay be destroyed; or if thesethings