Whosoever, therefore, declares that there is but one (lod. only so as to take away the divinity of Christ, is a devil,' and an enemy of all right- eousness. He also that confesseth Christ, yet not as the Son of the Maker of the world, but of some other unknown ■♦ being, different from Him whom the law and the prophets have pro- claimed, this man is an instrument of the devil. And he that rejects the incarnation, and is ashamed of the cross for which I am in bonds, this man 's antichrist.s Moreover, he who affirms Christ to be a mere man is accursed, according to the [declaration of the] prophet,^ since he puts not his trust in God, but in man. Where- fore also he is unfruitful, like the wild myrtle-tree.