83. Let us investigate the force of that word and expression more diligently, and deduce its proper meaning from other passages. “Thou hast,” it is said, “made them all in wisdom.” Ps. civ. [ciii.] 24. Do we here understand that Wisdom was without a share in the things that were made? But “all things were made by Him.” S. John i. 3. And David says: “By the Word of the Lord were the heavens established.” Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 6. So, then, he himself who calls the Son of God the maker even of heavenly things, has also plainly said that all things were made in the Son, that in the renewal of His works He might by no means separate the Son from the Father, but unite Him to the Father.