8. To assure us still more fully of the true
Godhead manifested in the nature and work of the Son, He, Who expressed
His meaning in the words I have cited, shews that His thought was
suggested by the true Divinity of Him to Whom He said, After Our own
image and likeness. How is He falsely called God, to Whom the
true God says, After Our own image and likeness?
Our is inconsistent with isolation, and with difference either
in purpose or in nature. Man is created, taking the words in
their strict sense, in Their common image. Now there can be
nothing common to the true and to the false. God, the Speaker, is
speaking to God; man is being created in the image of Father and of
Son. The Two are One in name and One in nature. It is only
one image after which man is made. The time has not yet come for
me to discuss this matter; hereafter I will explain what is this image
of God the Father and of God the Son into which man was created.
For the present we will stick to the question, was, or was not, He true
God, to Whom the true God said, Let Us make man after Our own image
and likeness? Separate, if you can, the true from the false
elements in this image common to Both; in your heretical madness divide
the indivisible. For They Two are One, of Whose one image and
likeness man is the one copy.