11. Now the constitution of human society does not allow, nor indeed do the words of our Lord’s teaching permit, that the disciple should be above his master, or the slave rule over his lord; because, in these contrasted positions, subordination to knowledge is the fitting state of ignorance, and unconditional submission the appointed lot of servitude. And since it is the common judgment of all that this is so, whose rashness now shall induce us to say or think that God is a creature, or that the Son has been made? For nowhere do we find that our Master and Lord spoke thus of Himself to His servants and disciples, or that He taught that His birth was a creation or a making. Moreover, the Father never bore witness to Him as being aught else but a Son, nor did the Son profess that God was aught else than His own true Father, assuredly affirming that He was born, not made nor created, as He says, Every one that loveth the Father, loveth also the Son Who is born of Him809    1 St. John v. 1..

11. Propheta facturam non dicit, quem Deus testatur filium.---Natura igitur humanae consuetudinis non sinit, sed nec Dominicae doctrinae sententia patitur, magistro discipulum praeesse, vel servum imperare domino: quod alterum alteri et per ignorantiam subjaceat, ut ignarus scienti; et per conditionem infirmum sit, ut dominatui servitus. Quae cum ita esse commune judicium sit; cujus nunc nos temeritatis exemplo Deum creaturam, et filium facturam et dicemus et existimabimus: cum nusquam nobis hoc de 0440B se et Magister et Dominus servus ac discipulis suis locutus sit, neque nativitatem suam aut creationem aut facturam docuerit? sed et Pater nihil umquam aliud quam filium testatus sit, et 415 Filius nihil aliud quam proprium sibi Deum patrem professus sit? natum utique, non factum aut creatum se asserens, sicuti ait: Omnis qui diligit Patrem, diligit et Filium, qui natus est ex eo (Joan. V, 1).