VI. So much for this point. What is their
next objection, how full of contentiousness and impudence? He,
they say, either voluntarily begat the Son, or else
involuntarily. Next, as they think, they bind us on both sides
with cords; these however are not strong, but very weak. For,
they say, if it was involuntarily He was under the sway of some one,
and who exercised this sway? And how is He, over whom it is
exercised, God? But if voluntarily, the Son is a Son of Will; how
then is He of the Father?—and they thus invent a new sort of
Mother for him,—the Will,—in place of the Father.
There is one good point which they may allege about this argument of
theirs; namely, that they desert Passion, and take refuge in
Will. For Will is not Passion.