80. What, then, is the reason that you
prefer saying that God or Christ is glorified in the Spirit rather than
with the Spirit? Is it because if you say in the Spirit, the
Spirit is declared to be less than Christ? Although your making
the Lord greater or less is a matter which can be refuted, yet since we
read, “For Christ was made sin for us, that we might be the
righteousness of God in Him,” 2 Cor. v. 21. He is found
chiefest in Whom we are found most low. So, too, elsewhere you
read, “For in Him all things consist,” Col. i. 17. that is, in His power. And the things
which consist in Him cannot be compared to Him, because they receive
from His power the substance whereby they consist.