VIII. As to the other passages, My God would
be used in respect, not of the Word, but of the Visible Word. For
how could there be a God of Him Who is properly God? In the same
way He is Father, not of the Visible, but of the Word; for our Lord was
of two Natures; so that one expression is used properly, the other
improperly in each of the two cases; but exactly the opposite way to
their use in respect of us. For with respect to us God is
properly our God, but not properly our Father. And this is the
cause of the error of the Heretics, namely the joining of these two
Names, which are interchanged because of the Union of the
Natures. And an indication of this is found in the fact that
wherever the Natures are distinguished in our thoughts from one
another, the Names are also distinguished; as you hear in Paul’s
words, “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
Glory.” Ephes. i. 17. The God of
Christ, but the Father of glory. For although these two terms
express but one Person, yet this is not by a Unity of Nature, but by a
Union of the two. What could be clearer?