6. My reader must bear in mind that I am
silent about the current objections through no forgetfulness, and no
distrust of my cause. For that constantly cited text, The
Father is greater than I, and its cognate passages are perfectly
familiar to me, and I have my interpretation of them ready, which makes
them witness to the true Divine nature of the Son. But it serves
my purpose best to adhere in reply to the order of attack, that our
pious effort may follow close upon the progress of their impious
scheme, and when we see them diverge into godless heresy we may at once
obliterate the track of error. To this end we postpone to the end
of our work the testimony of the Evangelists and Apostles, and join
battle with the blasphemers for the present on the ground of the Law
and the Prophets, silencing their crooked argument, based on
misinterpretation and deceit, by the very texts with which they strive
to delude us. The sound method of demonstrating a truth is to
expose the fallacy of the objections raised against it; and the
disgrace of the deceiver is complete if his own lie be converted into
an evidence for the truth. And, indeed, the universal experience
of mankind has learned that falsehood and truth are incompatible, and
cannot be reconciled or made coherent; that by their very nature they
are among those opposites which are eternally repugnant, and can never
combine or agree.