6.  We worship, therefore, as the Father of Christ, the Maker of heaven and earth, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Ex. iii. 6.; to whose honour the former temple also, over against us here, was built.  For we shall not tolerate the heretics who sever the Old Testament from the New Compare Lect. iv. 33., but shall believe Christ, who says concerning the temple, Wist ye not that I must be in My Father’s house Luke ii. 49.? and again, Take these things hence, and make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise John ii. 16., whereby He most clearly confessed that the former temple in Jerusalem was His own Father’s house.  But if any one from unbelief wishes to receive yet more proofs as to the Father of Christ being the same as the Maker of the world, let him hear Him say again, Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them shall fall on the ground without My Father which is in heaven Matt. x. 29.  S. Cyril instead of “your Father” writes “my Father which is in heaven:”  so Origen and Athanasius.; this also, Behold the fowls of the heaven that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them Matt. vi. 26.; and this, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work John v. 17..