158. There is yet
another Scripture, which our opponents commonly object against us, in
order to prove their division of the Godhead of the Father from the
Godhead of the
Son, namely,
our Lord’s words in the Gospel: “I am the true Vine
and My Father is the Husbandman.” The vine and the
husbandman, say they, are of different natures, and the vine is in the
power of the husbandman.