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But from this a twofold absurdity will necessarily be brought together. For either he will despise his fellow-slave and deny the faith, having shaken off the yoke of Christ's lordship, or he will bow down to the slave and, turning away from the sovereign and masterless nature, will in a way worship himself instead of God. 3.8.53 For if he sees himself in slavery and the object of worship also in slavery, he who sees another self in the object of worship is simply looking at himself. But indeed, all the other things that are necessarily contemplated with this wickedness of the dogma, what account could enumerate them? For who does not know that the slave by nature, being occupied with a master's compulsion, would not be outside the passion of fear? For fear is somehow yoked to the nature of slavery. And witness to this is the divine Apostle, who said: You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. So that, in the likeness of men, they will also ascribe the passion of fear to the fellow-slave god. 3.8.54 But such is the god of the heresy. But we who, according to the apostle, were called to freedom by Christ who freed us from slavery, what things we have been taught by the scriptures to think, I will set forth in brief. For I, starting from the divine teaching, boldly declare that the divine Word does not wish even us to be slaves, since our nature has been transformed to the better, and He who took all our things, so that he might give his own in return, just as he took sickness and death and the curse and sin, so also he took up slavery, not so that he himself might have what he took, but that he might cleanse our nature of such things, since our things were made to disappear in his undefiled nature. 3.8.55 Therefore, just as in the hoped-for life there will be no sickness, no curse, no sin, no death, so too will slavery pass away into disappearance along with these. And that I speak these things truly, I call Truth itself to witness, which says to the disciples: I no longer call you slaves, but friends. If, then, what pertains to us will one day be free from the reproach of slavery, how is the Lord of all enslaved by the derangement and madness of these frenzied men, who consequently must define that he does not even know the things of the Father, because of the pronouncement about slaves, which says: The slave does not 3.8.56 know what his master is doing? But when they say these things, let them hear that the Son has all the Father's things in himself, and sees all that the Father does, and none of the Father's goods is outside the knowledge of the Only-begotten. For how could he not have something of the Father, when he has the whole Father in himself? Therefore, if a slave does not know what the master is doing, but he has all the Father's things in himself, let those who are frantic with drunkenness become sober at last and look up now at least to the truth, that he who has all that the Father has is Lord of all and not a slave. For how can the masterless hypostasis have a slavish character upon it, and the King of all not have a form of equal honor with himself? Or how is dishonor radiated from true glory? For slavery is dishonor. 3.8.57 But how is the son of the king born into slavery? These things are not so, they are not so. But as light from light and life from life and truth from truth, so also from Lord, Lord; from King, King; from God, God; from Masterless, Masterless; for having the whole Father in himself, if the Father has anything in himself, he certainly has it; and since all that the Son has is the Father's, it is entirely necessary for the enemies of God's glory, if the Son is a slave, for the Father also to be brought down into slavery. 3.8.58 For there is nothing seen in the Son that is not entirely the Father's. For, he says, all mine are yours, and yours are mine. What then will the wretches say? What [then] is more reasonable, for the Son to be glorified in the Father's kingdom, who said, Yours are mine and I have been glorified in them, or for the Father to be insulted by the dishonor of the Son's slavery? For it is not possible for him who contains all the Son's things in himself and is himself in the Son not to be entirely in the Son's slavery as well and to have slavery in himself

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