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and God, and man; but the others, I mean those of Paul of Samosata, dispute these things about eternal existence and uncreated substance; for in contrast to "He made," he has placed, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever." And against the Arians, this same thing again, and that he is not a slave; for if a creature, then a slave. And against Marcellus and the others, that these are two persons, divided in hypostasis; and against the Marcionites, that the Godhead is not anointed, but the manhood. Then, "above your fellows," he says. Who are the fellows, but men? That is, Christ did not receive the Spirit by measure. 2. Do you see how he always connects the discourse on the economy with that on the uncreated nature? What is clearer than this? Have you seen how a creature and an offspring are not the same? For he would not have made a distinction, and in contrast to "He made," have brought in, "But to the Son he said, 'Your throne, O God, is forever and ever';" nor would he have called the name "Son" a more excellent name, if it was a sign of the same thing. For what is the difference? for if "creature" and "offspring" are the same, and they were made, what is more excellent? Behold again "the God," with the article. And again he says: "In the beginning, you, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and all will grow old like a garment, and like a cloak you will roll them up, and they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not fail." Lest, having heard, "But when He brings the Firstborn into the world," you should think it a gift afterward given to him, he both corrected this above, and again corrects it, saying: "In the beginning;" not now, but from above. Behold again he strikes Paul of Samosata and Arius with a fatal blow, applying to the Son what belongs to the Father. And besides this he hinted at another thing by the way, and greater than this; for he also showed the transformation of the world, saying: "Like a garment they will grow old, and like a cloak you will roll them up, and they will be changed." Which he also says in the Epistle to the Romans, that he will transform the world. And showing the ease of it, he added, "You will roll them up." For as one would roll up a cloak, so he will both roll up and change the world. If then he works so easily the transformation and creation for the better and the greater, did he need another for the lesser creation? How long will you not be ashamed? And at the same time, this is a very great comfort, to know that things will not be so, but all things will receive a change, and all things will be altered, but he remains always living, and infinitely living: "And your years," he says, "will not fail." But to which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"? Behold, again he encourages them, if indeed their enemies were to be defeated, and their enemies are the same as Christ's. This again is of kingship, this of equal honor, this of honor, not of weakness, that the Father is angry over the things done to the Son; this is a sign of great love and of the genuineness 63.30 of a father toward a son. For he who is angry on his behalf, how is he a stranger to him? "Until I make your enemies." Which he also says in the second psalm: "He who dwells in the heavens will laugh at them, and the Lord will mock them." "Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and in his anger he will trouble them." And again he himself says: "Those who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here before me, and slay them." For that the words are his, hear what he says also elsewhere: "How often I wanted to gather your children, and you were not willing?" "Behold, your house is left to you desolate." And again, "The kingdom shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation producing its fruits;" and again, "He who falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder." Otherwise, he who is to judge them there, much more did he demand justice here for the outrage against him. So that it is only of the honor to the Son, the saying, "Until"

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καὶ Θεὸν, καὶ ἄνθρωπον· τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους, τοὺς Παύλου λέγω τοῦ Σαμοσατέως, τῷ περὶ τῆς αἰωνίου ὑπάρξεως ταῦτα διαλέγεσθαι, καὶ τῆς ἀκτίστου οὐσίας· πρὸς γὰρ ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ, Ἐποίησε, τὸ, Ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, τέθεικε. Πρός τε Ἀρειανοὺς τοῦτό τε αὐτὸ πάλιν, καὶ ὅτι οὐ δοῦλος· εἰ δὲ κτίσμα, δοῦλος. Πρὸς δὲ Μάρκελλον καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους, ὅτι δύο ἐστὶ ταῦτα πρόσωπα διῃρημένα κατὰ τὴν ὑπόστασιν· πρὸς δὲ Μαρκιωνιστὰς, ὅτι ἡ θεότης οὐ χρίεται, ἀλλ' ἡ ἀνθρωπότης. Εἶτα, Παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου, φησί. Τίνες δέ εἰσιν οἱ μέτοχοι, ἀλλ' ἢ οἱ ἄνθρωποι; Τουτέστι, τὸ Πνεῦμα οὐκ ἐκ μέτρου ἔλαβεν ὁ Χριστός. βʹ. Ὁρᾷς πῶς συνάπτει ἀεὶ τῷ περὶ τῆς ἀκτίστου φύσεως καὶ τὸν περὶ τῆς οἰκονομίας λόγον; Τί τούτου σαφέστερον; Εἶδες πῶς οὐκ ἔστι τὸ αὐτὸ, κτίσμα καὶ γέννημα; οὐ γὰρ ἂν διεῖλε, καὶ πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ, Ἐποίησεν, ἐπήγαγε τὸ, Πρὸς δὲ τὸν Υἱὸν εἶπεν· Ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος· οὐδ' ἂν διαφορώτερον ὄνομα ἐκάλει τὸ Υἱὸς ὄνομα, εἰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἦν σημεῖον. Ποῖον γὰρ τὸ διάφορον; εἰ γὰρ τὸ κτίσμα καὶ γέννημα ταὐτὸν, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἐποιήθησαν, τί τὸ διαφορώτερον; Ἰδοὺ πάλιν τὸ, ὁ Θεὸς, μετὰ τοῦ ἄρθρου. Καὶ πάλιν φησί· Κατ' ἀρχὰς σὺ, Κύριε, τὴν γῆν ἐθεμελίωσας, καὶ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σού εἰσιν οἱ οὐρανοί. Αὐτοὶ ἀπολοῦνται, σὺ δὲ διαμένεις· καὶ πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἑλίξεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται· σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ, καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν. Ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσας· Ὅταν δὲ εἰσαγάγῃ τὸν Πρωτότοκον εἰς τὴν οἰκουμένην, ὡς δῶρον νομίσῃς εἶναι ὕστερον αὐτῷ προσδοθὲν, τοῦτο καὶ ἄνω προδιωρθώσατο, καὶ πάλιν ἐπιδιορθοῦται λέγων· Κατ' ἀρχάς· οὐχὶ νῦν, ἀλλ' ἄνωθεν. Ἰδοὺ πάλιν καὶ τὸν Σαμοσατέα Παῦλον καιρίᾳ πλήττει πληγῇ καὶ Ἄρειον, ἃ περὶ τοῦ Πατρός ἐστι, ταῦτα ἁρμόσας τῷ Υἱῷ. Μετὰ δὲ τούτου καί τι ἄλλο πάρεργον ᾐνίξατο, καὶ μεῖζον τούτου· καὶ γὰρ τὴν μετασχημάτισιν τοῦ κόσμου παρεδήλωσε λέγων· Ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἑλίξεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται. Ὃ καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους φησὶν, ὅτι μετασχηματίσει τὸν κόσμον. Καὶ τὸ εὔκολον δηλῶν, ἐπήγαγεν· Ἑλίξεις. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἂν εἴ τις περιβόλαιον ἑλίξῃ, οὕτως αὐτὸς τὸν κόσμον καὶ ἑλίξει καὶ ἀλλάξει. Εἰ δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον καὶ τὸ κρεῖττον μετασχημάτισιν καὶ δημιουργίαν οὕτως εὐκόλως ἐργάζεται, ἐπὶ τῆς ἐλάττονος δημιουργίας ἑτέρου ἐδεῖτο; Μέχρι τίνος οὐκ αἰσχύνεσθε; Ἅμα δὲ καὶ παραμυθία μεγίστη τοῦτό ἐστι, τὸ γνῶναι ὅτι οὐκ ἔσται οὕτω τὰ πράγματα, ἀλλὰ τὰ πάντα μεταβολὴν λήψεται, καὶ πάντα ἐναλλαγήσεται, αὐτὸς δὲ μένει διαπαντὸς ζῶν, καὶ ἀπείρως ζῶν· Καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου, φησὶν, οὐκ ἐκλείψουσι. Τίνι δὲ τῶν ἀγγέλων εἴρηκέ ποτε· Κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν μου, ἕως ἂν θῶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν σου; Ἰδοὺ πάλιν αὐτοὺς παραθαῤῥύνει, εἴ γε μέλλοιεν οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν ἡττηθήσεσθαι, καὶ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν οἱ αὐτοί εἰσιν, οἳ καὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Τοῦτο πάλιν βασιλείας, τοῦτο ὁμοτιμίας, τοῦτο τιμῆς, οὐκ ἀδυναμίας, τὸ τὸν Πατέρα ὀργίζεσθαι ὑπὲρ τῶν εἰς τὸν Υἱὸν γεγενημένων· τοῦτο πολλῆς ἀγάπης δεῖγμα καὶ γνησιό 63.30 τητος τῆς ὡς ἀπὸ πατρὸς πρὸς υἱόν. Ὁ γὰρ ὀργιζόμενος ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, πῶς ἀλλότριος αὐτοῦ ἐστιν; Ἕως ἂν θῶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου. Ὅπερ καὶ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ ψαλμῷ φησιν· Ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐκγελάσεται αὐτοὺς, καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐκμυκτηριεῖ αὐτούς. Τότε λαλήσει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ θυμῷ αὐτοῦ ταράξει αὐτούς. Καὶ πάλιν αὐτός φησι· Τοὺς μὴ θελήσαντάς με βασιλεῦσαι ἐπ' αὐτοὺς, ἀγάγετε ὧδε ἐνώπιόν μου, καὶ κατασφάξατε αὐτούς. Ὅτι γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐστι τὰ ῥήματα, ἄκουσον τί φησι καὶ ἑτέρωθι· Ποσάκις ἠθέλησα ἐπισυναγαγεῖν τὰ τέκνα σου, καὶ οὐκ ἠθελήσατε; Ἰδοὺ ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος. Καὶ πάλιν, Ἀρθήσεται ἀφ' ὑμῶν ἡ βασιλεία, καὶ δοθήσεται ἔθνει ποιοῦντι τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτῆς· καὶ πάλιν, Ὁ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὸν λίθον τοῦτον, συνθλασθήσεται· ἐφ' ὃν δ' ἂν πέσῃ, λικμήσει αὐτόν. Ἄλλως δὲ, ὁ μέλλων ἐκεῖ κρίνειν αὐτοὺς, πολλῷ μᾶλλον αὐτοὺς δίκην ἐνταῦθα τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν παροινίας ἀπῄτησεν. Ὥστε τιμῆς μόνης ἐστὶ τῆς εἰς τὸν Υἱὸν, τὸ, Ἕως ἂν