28. Now the Apostle asserts that those words
in the Gospel, I and the Father are one St. John x. 30.,
imply unity of nature and not a solitary single Being, as he writes to
the Corinthians, Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man in
the Spirit of God calleth Jesus anathema 1 Cor. xii. 3.. Perceivest thou now, O heretic, in
what spirit thou callest Christ a creature? For since they are
under a curse who have served the creature more than the
Creator—in affirming Christ to be a creature, learn what thou
art, since thou knowest full well that the worship of the creature is
accursed. And observe what follows, And no one can call Jesus
Lord, but in the Holy Spirit Ibid.. Dost
thou perceive what is lacking to thee, when thou deniest Christ what is
His own? If thou holdest that Christ is Lord through His Divine
nature, thou hast the Holy Spirit. But if He be Lord merely by a
name of adoption thou lackest the Holy Spirit, and art animated by a
spirit of error: because no one can call Jesus Lord, but in the
Holy Spirit. But when thou sayest that He is a creature rather
than God, although thou stylest Him Lord, still thou dost not say that
He is the Lord. For to thee He is Lord as one of a common class
and by a familiar name, rather than by nature. Yet learn from
Paul His nature.