47. His Godhead, then, is not by reason of
creation, but creation exists because of the Godhead; even as the
Apostle showed, saying that all things exist because of the Son of God,
for we read as follows: “But it was fitting that He,
through Whom and because of Whom are all things, after bringing many
sons to glory, should, as Captain of their salvation, be made perfect
through suffering.” Heb. ii. 10. Has he not
plainly declared that the Son of God, Who, by reason of His Godhead,
was the Creator of all, did in after time, for the salvation of His
people, submit to the taking on of the flesh and the suffering of
death?