364 NOVATIAN THE ROMAN PRESBYTER made, and withoutwhom nothingwas made, who always lias obeyed and obeys the Father; that He always has power over allthings,but as delivered,as granted,as by the Father Himself permittedto Him. And what can be so evident [by way of proof]thatthisisnot the Father,but the Son ; as thatHe issetforthas being obedientto God the Father, unless,if He be believedto be the Father,Christ may be saidto be subjectedto anotherGod the Father? CHAPTER XXVII.1 Argument. — He skilfullyrepliestothepassage," I and the Father are one,"which thehereticsemployedin defenceof theirown opinion. But sincethey frequentlyurge upon us the passage where itissaid,"I and the Father are one,"2in thisalso we shall overcome them with equal facility.For if,as the heretics think,Christwere the Father, He ought to have said,"I and the Father are one"3 [scil.person]. But when He says I, and afterwardsintroducesthe Father by saying," I and the Father,"He seversand distinguishesthe peculiarityof His, that is,the Son's person,from the paternalauthority, not only in respectof the sound of the name, but moreover in respectof the orderof the distributionof power, sinceHe might have said,u I the Father,"ifHe had had itin mind thatHe Himself was the Father. And sinceHe said " one" (scil.thing),letthe hereticsunderstandthatHe did not say "one" [scil.person]. For one placed in the neuter,inti mates the socialconcord,not the personalunity. He issaid to be one [neuter],not one [masculine],because the expres sion is not referredto the number, but it is declaredwith referenceto the associationof another. Finally,He adds, and says," We are,"not " I am," so as to show, by the fact of His saying "I and the Father are,"that they are two 1AccordingtoPamelius,ch.xxii. 5Johnx.30; scil." unum,"Gr.e». 8 Original,"unus."