CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 881 withouta beginning. He thereforeisGod, but begottenfor thisspecialresult,that He should be God. He is alsothe Lord, but born forthisvery purposeof the Father,thatHe might be Lord. He is alsoan angel,but He was destined of the Father as an angelto announce the greatcounsel of God. And His divinityis thus declared,that it may not appear by any dissonanceor inequalityof divinityto have causedtwo Gods. For allthings being subjectedto Him as the Son by the Father,while He Himself,with thosethings which are subjectedto Him, is subjectedto His Father, He is indeed proved to be Son of His Father; but He is found to be both Lord and God of allelse. Whence, while allthingsput under Him are deliveredto Him who isGod, and allthings are subjected to Him, the Son refers all that He has receivedto the Father, remits again to the Father the whole authorityof His divinity.The true and eternalFather is manifested as the one God, from whom alonethispower of divinityissent forth,and alsogiven and directedupon the Son, and is again returned by the com munion of substanceto the Father. God indeedisshown as the Son, to whom the divinityis beheld to be given and extended. And still,nevertheless,the Father is proved to be one God; while by degrees in reciprocaltransferthat majesty and divinityare againreturnedand reflectedas sent by the Son Himself to the Father,who had given them ; so that reasonablyGod the Father isGod of all,and the source also of His Son Himself whom He begot as Lord. More over, the Son isGod of allelse,becauseGod the Father piit before allHim whom He begot. Tlms the Mediator of God and men, Christ Jesus,having the power of every creature subjected to Him by His own Father,inasmuch as He is God ; with every creaturesubdued to Him, found at one with His Father God, has brieflyproved God His Father to be one and only and trueGod by abiding in that condition tbat He moreover " was heard."1 1 Thereisapparentlysomeindistinctreferenceheretothepassagein Heb. v.7,"and washeardinthatHe feared"— xtoTijftiKxi3c!x;.