Tertullian On Fasting Emaciation displeases not us; for it is not by weight that God bestows flesh, any more than He does "the Spirit by measure."[122] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity , but to every creature, as both Lord and God? And in the former case indeed this name is given with reserve, in the latter lavishly; in the former by measure, in the latter above all kind of measure: "For," it is said, "the Father giveth not to the Son by measure, for the Father loveth the Son."[163] Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John . The Father," says he, "loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hands."[17]