19. Reverence for the One Unbegotten Creator
distressed me, lest in your sweeping assertion that all things were
made by the Word you had included Him. You have banished my fears
by your Without Him was nothing made. Yet this same
Without Him was nothing made brings trouble and
distraction. There was, then, something made by that Other; not
made, it is true, without Him. If the Other did make
anything, even though the Word were present at the making, then it is
untrue that through Him all things were made. It is one
thing to be the Creator’s Companion, quite another to be the
Creator’s Self. I could find answers of my own to the
previous objections; in this case, Fisherman, I can only turn at once
to your words, All things were made through Him. And now I
understand, for the Apostle has enlightened me:—Things visible
and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or
powers, all are through Him and in Him Col. i. 16..