63. But [say they]
it is written: “After me cometh a Man, Who is made before
me, because He was before me;” S. John i. 30. and so
they
argue:
“See, He Who was aforetime is ‘made.’”
Let us take the words by themselves. “After me cometh a
Man.” He, then, Who came is a Man, and this is the Man Who
“was made.” But the word “man” connotes
sex, and sex is attributed to human nature, but never to the
Godhead.