XVI. But further—Jesus goeth up out of
the water…for with Himself He carries up the world…and sees
the heaven opened which Adam had shut against himself and all his
posterity, Gen. iii. 24. as the gates of
Paradise by the flaming sword. And the Spirit bears witness to
His Godhead, for he descends upon One that is like Him, as does the
Voice from Heaven (for He to Whom the witness is borne came from
thence), and like a Dove, for He honours the Body (for this also was
God, through its union with God) by being seen in a bodily form; and
moreover, the Dove has from distant ages been wont to proclaim the end
of the Deluge. Ib. viii.
11. But if you
are to judge of Godhead by bulk and weight, and the Spirit seems to you
a small thing because He came in the form of a Dove, O man of
contemptible littleness of thought concerning the greatest of things,
you must also to be consistent despise the Kingdom of Heaven, because
it is compared to a grain of mustard seed; Matt. xiii. 31.
and you must exalt the adversary above the Majesty of Jesus, because he
is called a great Mountain, Zech. iv. 7. and
Leviathan The word
Leviathan does not occur in the LXX., though
it is found twice in other Greek Versions of the Book of Job,
viz.:—iii. 8 and xl. 20. and King of that
which lives in the water, whereas Christ is called the Lamb, Isa. liii. 7. and the Pearl, Matt. xiii. 46.
and the Drop Ps. lxxii. 6. and similar
names.