23. Let Sabellius, if he dare, confound Father and Son as two names with one meaning, making of them not Unity but One Person. He shall have a prompt answer from the Gospels, not once or twice, but often repeated, This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased St. Matt. xvii. 5. See the note to § 8.. He shall hear the words, The Father is greater than I St. John xiv. 28., and I go to the Father Ib. 12., and Father, I thank Thee Ib. xi. 41., and Glorify Me, Father Ib. xvii. 5., and Thou art the Son of the living God St. Matt. xvi. 17.. Let Hebion try to sap the faith, who allows the Son of God no life before the Virgin’s womb, and sees in Him the Word only after His life as flesh had begun. We will bid him read again, Father, glorify Me with Thine own Self with that glory which I had with Thee before the world was St. John xvii. 5., and In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Ib. i. 1., and All things were made through Him Ib. i. 3., and He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world knew Him not Ib. i. 10.. Let the preachers whose apostleship is of the newest fashion—an apostleship of Antichrist—come forward and pour their mockery and insult upon the Son of God. They must hear, I came out from the Father Ib. xvi. 28.and The Son in the Father’s bosom Ib. i. 18., and I and the Father are One Ib. x. 30., and I in the Father, and the Father in Me Ib. xiv. 11.. And lastly, if they be wrath, as the Jews were, that Christ should claim God for His own Father, making Himself equal with God, they must take the answer which He gave the Jews, Believe My works, that the Father is in Me and I in the Father Ib. x. 38.. Thus our one immovable foundation, our one blissful rock of faith, is the confession from Peter’s mouth, Thou art the Son of the living God St. Matt. xvi. 16.. On it we can base an answer to every objection with which perverted ingenuity or embittered treachery may assail the truth.