XI.  What was Adam?  A creature of God.  What then was Eve?  A fragment of the creature.  And what was Seth?  The begotten of both.  Does it then seem to you that Creature and Fragment and Begotten are the same thing?  Of course it does not.  But were not these persons consubstantial?  Of course they were.  Well then, here it is an acknowledged fact that different persons may have the same substance.  I say this, not that I would attribute creation or fraction or any property of body to the Godhead (let none of your contenders for a word be down upon me again), but that I may contemplate in these, as on a stage, things which are objects of thought alone.  For it is not possible to trace out any image exactly to the whole extent of the truth.  But, they say, what is the meaning of all this?  For is not the one an offspring, and the other a something else of the One?  Did not both Eve and Seth come from the one Adam?  And were they both begotten by him?  No; but the one was a fragment of him, and the other was begotten by him.  And yet the two were one and the same thing; both were human beings; no one will deny that.  Will you then give up your contention against the Spirit, that He must be either altogether begotten, or else cannot be consubstantial, or be God; and admit from human examples the possibility of our position?  I think it will be well for you, unless you are determined to be very quarrelsome, and to fight against what is proved to demonstration.