54. “How,” they say, “can the Son of God be the
only true God, like to the Father, when He Himself said to the sons of
Zebedee: ‘Ye shall drink indeed of My cup; but to sit on My
right hand or on My left, is not Mine to give to you, but to those for
whom it has been prepared of My Father’?” S. Matt. xx. 23. This, then, is, as you desire,
your proof of divine inequality; though in it you ought rather to
reverence the Lord’s kindness and to adore His grace; if, that
is, you could but perceive the deep secrets of the virtue and wisdom of
God.