53. Therefore the Father hath said:
“Let us make man in Our image and likeness.” At the
beginning of the universe itself, as I read, the Father and the Son
existed, and I see one creation. I hear Him that
speaketh. The Father. I
acknowledge Him that doeth: The Son. but it
is of one image, one likeness, that I read. This likeness belongs
not to diversity but to unity. What, therefore, thou claimest for
thyself, thou takest from the Son of God, seeing, indeed, that thou
canst not be in the image of God, save by help of the image of
God.