106. It is one thing to be named Son
according to the divine Substance, it is another thing to be so called
according to the adoption of human flesh. For, according to the
divine Generation, the Son is equal to God the Father; and, according
to the adoption of a body, He is a servant to God the Father.
“For,” it says, “He took upon Him the form of a
servant.” Phil. ii. 7. The Son
is, however, one and the same. On the other hand, according to
His glory, He is Lord to the holy patriarch David, but his Son in the
line of actual descent, not abandoning aught of His own, but acquiring
for Himself the rights that go with the adoption into our
race.