105. What better expounder of the Scriptures
do we indeed look for than that teacher of the Gentiles, that chosen
vessel—chosen from the number of the persecutors? He who
had been the persecutor of Christ confesses Him. He had read Solomon
more, in any case, than Arius hath, and he was well learned in the Law,
and so, because he had read, he said not that Christ was created, but
that He was begotten. For he had read, “He spake, and they
were made: He commanded, and they were created.” Ps. xxxiii. 9; cxlviii. 5. Was Christ, I ask, made at a
word? Was He created at a command?