14. But perhaps we shall find that our fisherman has been guilty of departure from the terms of the problem proposed for solution78    I.e. how to reconcile the Unity of God with the Divinity of Christ. To say that the Word is God might seem to contradict the Unity by asserting the existence of a second God.. He has set the Word free from the limitations of time; that which is free lives its own life and is bound to no obedience. Let us, therefore, pay our best attention to what follows:—And the Word was with God. We find that it is with God that the Word, Which was before the beginning, exists unconditioned by time. The Word, Which was, is with God. He Who is absent when we seek for His origin in time79    Reading a cognitione temporis. is present all the while with the Creator of time. For this once our fisherman has escaped; perhaps he will succumb to the difficulties which await him.

14. Non est tamen solitarium.---Sed excidisse forte ab ordine propositae distributionis piscatorem nostrum deprehendemus: Verbum enim tempore liberavit, et suum est sibique, quod liberum est, et solitarium et obtemperans nemini. Aures 0061A erigamus in caetera. Ait: Et Verbum erat apud Deum (Joan. I, 1). Jam sine principio est apud Deum, quod erat ante principium. Est ergo qui erat, apud Deum: et qui abest a cognitionis tempore, non abest ab auctore. Piscator noster evasit: sed forte haerebit in caeteris.