30. They have also dared to say that the
Scripture, When all things shall be subjected unto Him, then shall
the Son also Himself be subjected unto Him that subjected all things
unto Him 1 Cor. xv. 28. Theodoret Comment. in
Epist. i. ad Cor. xv. 28: “This passage the followers
of Arius and Eunomius carry continually on their tongue, thinking in
this way to disparage the dignity of the
Only-begotten.”,—that this
Scripture shews that the Son also shall be absorbed into the
Father. Shall ye then, O most impious of all men, ye the
creatures of Christ, continue? and shall Christ perish, by whom both
you and all things were made? Such a word is blasphemous.
But further, how shall all things be made subject unto Him? By
perishing, or by abiding? Shall then the other things, when
subject to the Son abide, and shall the Son, when subject to the
Father, not abide? For He shall be subjected, not because He
shall then begin to do the Father’s will (for from eternity He
doth always those things that please Him John viii. 29.), but because,
then as before, He obeys the Father, yielding, not a forced obedience,
but a self-chosen accordance; for He is not a servant, that He should
be subjected by force, but a Son, that He should comply of His free
choice and natural love.