15. But perhaps it will be argued that, when the Angel of God is called God, He receives the name as a favour, through adoption, and has in consequence a nominal, not a true, Godhead. If He gave us an inadequate revelation of His Divine nature at the time when He was styled the Angel of God, judge whether He has not fully manifested His true Godhead under the name of a nature lower than the angelic. For a Man spoke to Abraham, and Abraham worshipped Him as God. Pestilent heretic! Abraham confessed Him, you deny Him, to be God. What hope is there for you, in your blasphemy, of the blessings promised to Abraham? He is Father of the Gentiles, but not for you; you cannot go forth from your regeneration to join the household of his seed, through the blessings given to his faith. You are no son, raised up to Abraham from the stones; you are a generation of vipers, an adversary of his belief. You are not the Israel of God, the heir of Abraham, justified by faith; for you have disbelieved God, while Abraham was justified and appointed to be the Father of the Gentiles through that faith wherein he worshipped the God Whose word he trusted. God it was Whom that blessed and faithful Patriarch worshipped then; and mark how truly He was God, to Whom, in His own words, all things are possible. Is there any, but God alone, to Whom nothing is impossible? And He, to Whom all things are possible, does He fall short of true Divinity?

15. Quem in specie angeli Agar Deum dixit, Abraham in forma hominis adoravit. Adorando justificatus est. Deum verum adoravit.---Sed forte in eo, cum angelus Dei Deus dicitur, adoptionis nomen indulgeatur, et sit in eo nuncupatio Dei potius quam veritas. Si parum naturam in se Dei tum, cum angelus Dei dictus est, docuit; in inferioris adhuc ab angelo naturae nomine intellige, an ex se Dei praestiterit veritatem. Namque ad Abraham homo locutus est; sed Abraham Deum adoravit. Sed o pestifer haeretice, Deum Abraham confessus est, quem 0138A tu Deum denegas. Quas promissas Abrahae benedictiones impie exspectas? Non est tibi ille, ut est, gentium 112 pater: neque in familiam seminis sui per benedictiones fidei suae renatus evadis. Non de lapidibus Abrahae filius excitaris; sed natio viperarum confessionis suae hostis exsistis. Non es Israel Dei, non es Abrahae successio, non justificatus ex fide es: non enim Deo credidisti. Per eam namque fidem justificatus est, et constitutus est Abraham pater gentium, per quam Deum cui crediderat adoravit. Adoravit etenim beatus ille et fidelis patriarcha Deum (Gen. XVIII, 14); et accipe quam Deum verum, cui, ut ipse de se ait, non impossibile est omne verbum. Aut numquid non soli Deo possibile est omne verbum? Aut cui possibile est 0138B omne verbum, quaero quid desit de Deo vero.