80. For He hath found and devised all the
way of discipline, as we read above, inasmuch as of the Son of God it
hath been said: “This is our God, and none other shall be
accounted of in comparison with Him, Who hath found all the way of
discipline. After these things He was seen on earth, and
conversed with men.” Baruch iii. 36 ff. How, then,
could He, as divine, not have His own doctrine—He Who hath found
all the way of discipline before He was seen on earth? Or how is
He inferior, of Whom it is said, “None shall be accounted of in
comparison with Him”? Surely He is entitled incomparable,
in comparison of Whom none other can be accounted of—yet so that
He cannot be accounted of before the Father. Now if men suppose
that the Father is spoken of, they shall not escape running into the
blasphemy of Sabellius, of ascribing the assumption of human nature to
the Father.