10. Consider the other recorded instances in which this name was given by favour or assumed. To Moses it was said, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh349    Exod. vii. 1.. Does not this addition, to Pharaoh, account for the title? Did God impart to Moses the Divine nature? Did He not rather make Moses a god in the sight of Pharaoh, who was to be smitten with terror when Moses’ serpent swallowed the magic serpents and returned into a rod, when he drove back the venomous flies which he had called forth, when he stayed the hail by the same power wherewith he had summoned it, and made the locusts depart by the same might which had brought them; when in the wonders that he wrought the magicians saw the finger of God? That was the sense in which Moses was appointed to be god to Pharaoh; he was feared and entreated, he chastised and healed. It is one thing to be appointed a god; it is another thing to be God. He was made a god to Pharaoh; he had not that nature and that name wherein God consists. I call to mind another instance of the name being given as a title; that where it is written, I have said, Ye are gods350    Psalm lxxxi. (lxxxii.) 6.. But this is obviously the granting of a favour. I have said proves that it is no definition, but only a description by One Who chooses to speak thus. A definition gives us knowledge of the object defined; a description depends on the arbitrary will of the speaker. When a speaker is manifestly conferring a title, that title has its origin only in the speaker’s words, not in the thing itself. The title is not the name which expresses its nature and kind.

10. Moysi Dei nomen adjectum. Dii alii ex vocantis voluntate.---Respice ad caeteras aut deputativas, aut assumptivas appellationes. Ad Moysen dictum est, Dedi te deum Pharaoni (Exodi VII, 1). Sed numquid non adjecta nominis causa est, cum dicitur 0207A Pharaoni? Aut numquid ei naturam Dei intulit, et non potius in eum qui metueret terrorem, cum dracones magicos draco Moysi mox virga manens devorat, cum cynomyiam quam immiserat abigit, cum grandinem potestate qua evocaverat avertit, cum locustas ea virtute qua invexerat repulit, cum in operationibus ejus magi confitentur digitum Dei esse (Exod. VII, 12; VIII, 31; IX, 33; X, 19; VIII, 19)? Sic Moyses Pharaoni deus datus est, dum timetur, dum oratur, dum punit, dum medetur. Et aliud est deum dari, aliud est Deum esse. In Pharaonem enim deus datus est: caeterum non ei est et natura et nomen, ut Deus sit. Memini quoque et alterius nuncupationis, ubi dicitur, Ego dixi, dii estis (Psal. LXXXI, 6), sed in eo indulti nominis significatio est. Et ubi refertur, 0207B ego dixi, loquentis potius est sermo, quam rei nomen: quia rei nomen intelligentiam rei affert, caeterum voluntas appellationis ex alio est. Et ubi se nuncupationis auctor ostendit, ibi per sermonem auctoris est nuncupatio, non naturale nomen in genere.