Topic V. If any one affirms that the Son of God who is before the ages is one, and He who has appeared in these last times is another, and refuses to acknowledge that He who is before the ages is the same with Him who appeared in these last times, even as it is written, let him be anathema. Explication. How could it be said that the Son of God who is before the ages, and He who has appeared in these last times, are different, when the Lord Himself says, “Before Abraham was, I am;” 400 and, “I came forth from God, and I come, and again I go to my Father?” 401 400     John viii. 58 . 401     John xiii. and xvi .