CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 339 pretendhere to have been the God who descended to that tower,and askingto visitthose men at thattime? God the Father? Then thus He isenclosedin a place; and how does He embrace allthings? Or does He say thatitisan angel descending with angels,and saying,"Come;" and subse quently,"Let us go down and thereconfound theirtongues?" And yet in Deuteronomy we observe that God told these things,and that God said,where it is written,"When He scatteredabroad the childrenof Adam, He determined thebounds of the nations accordingto the number of the angelsof God." 1 Neither,therefore,didthe Father descend, as the subjectitselfindicates; nor did an angel command thesethings,as the factshows. Then it remains that He must have descended,of whom the Apostle Paul says," He who descended is the same who ascended above all the heavens,thatHe might fillallthings,"2 thatis,the Son of God, the Word of God. But the Word of God was made flesh,and dweltamong us. This must be Christ. Therefore Christmust be declaredto be God. CHAPTER XVIII.8 Argument. — Moreover also,from thefact tliatHe who was seen of Abraham is calledGod; which cannotbe under stoodof theFather,whom no man hathseenat any time; but of theSon in thelikenessof an angel. Behold, the same Moses tellsus in another place that " God was seen of Abraham." * And yet the same Moses hears from God, that" no man can see God and live."5 If God cannot be seen,how was God seen? Or if He was seen, how is it that He cannot be seen? For John also says, " No man hath seen God at any time;" 6 and the Apostle Paul, " Whom no man hath seen,nor can see."7 J Deut.xxxii.8. * Eph.iv.10. * AccordingtoPamelius,ch.xxvi. 4 Gen xii.7. * Ex. xxxiii.20. 6 1 Johniv.12. 7 1 Tim.yi.16.