Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things were made ; for " all things were made by Him." ^ " When He made the heaven, I was present with Him ; and I was there with Him, forming [the world along with Him], and He rejoiced in me daily." ^ And how could a mere man be addressed in such words as these : "Sit Thou at My right hand?"*^ And how, again, could such an one declare : " Before Abraham was, I am?" 9 And, "Glorify Me with Thy glory which I had before the world was? " '° What man could ever say, " I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me ? " " And of what man could it be said, " He was the true Light, which light- eth every man that cometh into the world : He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not?" " How could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning of His existence from Mary, and not rather God the Word, and the only-begotten Son ? For " in tie beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,'^ and the Word was God."'* And in another place, "The Lord cre- ated Me, the beginning of His ways, for His ways,