Chapter VI.—Continuation. Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things were made; for “all things were made by Him.”715 “When He made the heaven, I was present with Him; and I was there with Him, forming [the world along with Him], and He rejoiced in me daily.”716 And how could a mere man be addressed in such words as these: “Sit Thou at My right hand?”717 And how, again, could such an one declare: “Before Abraham was, I am?”718 And, “Glorify Me with Thy glory which I had before the world was?”719 What man could ever say, “I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me?”720 And of what man could it be said, “He was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world: He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not?”721 How could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning of His existence from Mary, and not rather God the Word, and the only-begotten Son? For “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,722 and the Word was God.”723 And in another place, “The Lord created Me, the beginning of His ways, for His ways, for His works. Before the world did He found Me, and before all the hills did He beget Me.”724 715 John i. 3. 716 Prov. viii. 27, 30. 717 Ps. cx. 1. 718 John viii. 58. 719 John xvii. 5. 720 John vi. 38. 721 John i. 9, 10, 11. 722 John i. 1. 723 Some insert here John i. 3. 724 Prov. viii. 22, 23, 25. Chapter VI.—Continuation. 286 Chapter VI.—Continuation.