CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 855 that the name which is that God's who is above allthings, isabove everyname; which name by consequenceiscertainly His who, although He was in the form of God, thought it not robbery for Him to be equalwith God. For neither,if Christwere not God, would every knee bend itselfin His name, of things in heaven,and things in earth,and things under the earth; nor would thingsvisibleand invisible,even every creatureof allthings,be subjectedor be placedunder man, when they might remember thatthey were beforeman. Whence, since Christissaidto be in the form of God, and sinceitisshown that for His nativityaccordingto the flesh He emptied Himself ; and since it is declared that He received from the Father that name which is above every name ; and sinceitisshown thatin His name every knee of thingsin heaven,and thingsin earth,and thingsunder the earth, bend and bow themselves; and this very thing is assertedto be a furtheranceof the gloryof God the Father; consequently He is not man only,from the fact that He became obedientto the Father,even to death,yea,the death of the cross; but,moreover,from the proclamationby these higher matters of the divinityof Christ,Christ Jesus is shown to be Lord and God, which the hereticswillnot have. CHAPTER XXIII.1 Argument. — And thisisso manifest,thatsome hereticshave thoughtHim tobe God the Father,othersthatHe was only God withouttheflesh. In this placeI may be permittedalsoto collectarguments from the side of other heretics.It isa substantialkind of proof which is gathered even from an adversary,so as to prove the trutheven from the very enemies of truth. For h is so far manifestthat He is declaredin the Scriptures to be God, that many heretics,moved by the magnitude and truth of thisdivinity,exaggeratingHis honours above 1AccordingtoPamelius,ch.xviii.