16.  But their contention is that to use the phrase “with him” is altogether strange and unusual, while “through him” is at once most familiar in Holy Scripture, and very common in the language of the brotherhood. The word ἀδελφότης is in the New Testament peculiar to S. Peter (1 Peter ii. 17, and v. 9); it occurs in the Epistle of St. Clement to the Corinthians, Chap. ii.  What is our answer to this?  We say, Blessed are the ears that have not heard you and the hearts that have been kept from the wounds of your words.  To you, on the other hand, who are lovers of Christ, Φιλόχριστοι.  The word is not common, but occurs in inscriptions.  cf. Anth. Pal. I. x. 13. ὀρθὴν πίστιν ἔχουσα φιλοχρίστοιο μενοινῆς. I say that the Church recognizes both uses, and deprecates neither as subversive of the other.  For whenever we are contemplating the majesty of the nature of the Only Begotten, and the excellence of His dignity, we bear witness that the glory is with the Father; while on the other hand, whenever we bethink us of His bestowal χορηγία.  cf. the use of the cognate verb in 1 Pet. iv. 11.  ἐξ ἰσχύος ἧς χορηγεί ὁ θεός. on us of good gifts, and of our access προσαγωγή.  cf. Eph. ii. 18. to, and admission into, the household of God, οἰκείωσιν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.  cf. οἰκεῖοι τοῦ Θεοῦ in Eph. ii. 19. we confess that this grace is effected for us through Him and by ἐν.Him.