6. That Christ is God.

In Genesis: “And God said unto Jacob, Arise, and go up to the place of Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to that God who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of thy brother Esau.”154    Gen. xxxv. 1. Also in Isaiah: “Thus saith the Lord, the God of Sabaoth, Egypt is wearied; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the tall men of the Sabeans, shall pass over unto Thee, and shall be Thy servants; and shall walk after Thee bound with chains; and shall worship Thee, and shall pray to Thee, because God is in Thee, and there is no other God beside Thee.  For Thou art God, and we knew it not, O God of Israel, our Saviour. They shall all be confounded and fear who oppose Thee, and shall fall into confusion.”155    Isa. xlv. 14–16. Likewise in the same:  “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God. Every channel shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and all crooked places shall be made straight, and rough places plain; and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God, because the Lord hath spoken it.”156    Isa. xl. 3–5. Moreover, in Jeremiah:  This is our God, and no other shall be esteemed beside Him, who hath found all the way of knowledge, and hath given it to Jacob His son, and to Israel His beloved. After this He was seen upon earth, and He conversed with men.”157    Baruch iii. 35–37. Also in Zechariah God says: “And they shall cross over through the narrow sea, and they shall smite the waves in the sea, and they shall dry up all the depths of the rivers; and all the haughtiness of the Assyrians shall be confounded, and the sceptre of Egypt shall be taken away. And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God, and in His name shall they glory, saith the Lord.”158    Zech. x. 11, 12. Moreover, in Hosea the Lord saith: “I will not do according to the anger of mine indignation, I will not allow Ephraim to be destroyed: for I am God, and there is not a holy man in thee: and I will not enter into the city; I will go after God.”159    Hos. xi. 9, 10. Also in the forty-fourth Psalm: “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.”160    Ps. xlv. 6, 7. So, too, in the forty-fifth Psalm: “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.”161    Ps. xlv. 10. Also in the eighty-first Psalm: “They have not known, neither have they understood: they will walk on in darkness.”162    Ps. lxxxii. 5. Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “Sing unto God, sing praises unto His name: make a way for Him who goeth up into the west: God is His name.”163    Ps. lxviii. 4. Also in the Gospel according to John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.”164    John i. 1. Also in the same:  “The Lord said to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands: and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.”165    John xx. 27–29. Also Paul to the Romans:  “I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren and my kindred according to the flesh: who are Israelites: whose are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant, and the appointment of the law, and the service (of God), and the promises; whose are the fathers, of whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is God over all, blessed for evermore.”166    Rom. ix. 3–5. Also in the Apocalypse: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: I will give to him that is athirst, of the fountain of living water freely. He that overcometh shall possess these things, and their inheritance; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”167    Rev. xxi. 6, 7.  Also in the eighty-first Psalm: “God stood in the congregation of gods, and judging gods in the midst.”168    Ps. lxxxii. 1. And again in the same place: “I have said, Ye are gods; and ye are all the children of the Highest: but ye shall die like men.”169    Ps. lxxxii. 6, 7. But if they who have been righteous, and have obeyed the divine precepts, may be called gods, how much more is Christ, the Son of God, God!  Thus He Himself says in the Gospel according to John: “Is it not written in the law, that I said, Ye are gods? If He called them gods to whom the word of God was given, and the Scripture cannot be relaxed, do ye say to Him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world, that thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? But if I do not the works of my Father, believe me not; but if I do, and ye will not believe me, believe the works, and know that the Father is in me, and I in Him.”170    John x. 34–38. Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “And ye shall call His name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.”171    Matt. i. 23.

CAP. VI.---QUOD DEUS CHRISTUS.

In Genesi: Dixit autem Deus ad Jacob: Exsurge, et ascende in locum Bethel: et habita illic, et fac illic altare illi Deo qui tibi apparuit cum fugeres a facie Esau fratris tui (Gen. XXXV, 1). Item apud Esaiam: 0700C Sic dicit Dominus Deus sabaoth: Fatigata est Aegyptus, et negotiatio Aethiopum, et Sabaim viri alti ad te transgredientur, et tui erunt servi, et post te ambulabunt vincti compedibus, et adorabunt te, et in te precabuntur; quoniam in te Deus est, et non est Deus alius praeter te. Tu enim es Deus, et non sciebamus, Deus Israel salvator. Confundentur et reverebuntur omnes qui adversantur tibi, et cadent in confasionem (Isa. XLV, 14-16). Item apud eumdem: Vox clamantis in deserto 0701A : Parate viam Domini , rectas facite semitas Dei nostri. Omnis rivus implebitur, et omnis mons et collis humiliabitur, et erunt omnia tortuosa in directum et aspera in campum : et videbitur claritas Domini , et videbit omnis caro salutare Dei, quoniam Dominus locutus est (Isa. XL, 3-5). Item apud Hieremiam: Hic Deus noster , et non deputabitur alius absque illo, qui invenit omnem viam prudentiae, et dedit eam Jacob puero suo et Israel dilecto sibi. Post haec in terris visus est, et cum hominibus conversatus est (Baruc. III, 35). Item apud Zachariam Deus dicit: Et transibunt per mare angustum, et percutient in mari fluctus, et arefacient omnes altitudines fluminum, et confundetur omnis injuria Assyriorum, et sceptrum Aegypti auferetur, et confortabo eos in 0701B Domino Deo ipsorum, et in nomine ejus gloriabuntur, dicit Dominus (Zach. X, 11, 12). Item apud Osee dicit Dominus: Non faciam juxta iram indignationis meae, non sinam deleri Effraim, quoniam Deus ego sum, et non homo in te sanctus , et non introibo in civitatem, post Deum ibo (Ose. XI, 9, 10). Item in Psalmo XLIV: Thronus tuus, Deus, in saecula saeculorum, virga aequitatis, virga regni tui. Dilexisti justitiam, et odisti iniquitatem . Propterea unxit te Deus. Deus tuus, oleo exultationis super participes tuos (Ps. XLIV, 7, 8). Item in Psalmo XLV: Vacate et cognoscite quoniam ego sum Deus. Exaltabor in gentibus et exaltabor in terra (Ps. LXV, 11). Item in Psalmo LXXXI: Non cognoverunt neque intellexerunt, in umbra deambulabunt (Ps. LXXXI, 5). Item in Psalmo LXVII: Cantate Deo: psallite 0701C nomini ejus, viam facite ei qui ascendit in occasum, Deus nomen illi (Ps. LXVII, 3). Item in Evangelio cata Joannem: In principio erat Sermo , et Sermo erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Sermo (Joan. I, 1). Item in eodem Dominus ad Thomam: Injice huc digitum tuum, et vide manus meas, et noli esse incredulus sed fidelis. Respondit Thomas, et dixit illi: Dominus 0702A meus et Deus meus. Dicit illi Jesus: Quia vidisti me , credidisti. Felices qui non viderunt et crediderunt (Joan. XX, 27-29). Item Paulus ad Romanos: Optabam ego ipse anathema esse a Christo pro fratribus cognatisque meis secundum carnem, qui sunt Israelitae, quorum adoptio et claritas et testamentum et legis constitutio et famulatus et promissiones, quorum patres , ex quibus Christus secundum carnem, qui est super omnia Deus benedictus in saecula (Rom. IX, 3-5). Item in Apocalypsi: Ego sum α et ω, initium et finis. Ego sitienti dabo de fonte aquae vitae gratis. Qui vicerit possidebit ea et eorum haereditatem; et ero ejus Deus, et ille erit mihi filius (Apoc. XXI, 6, 7). Item in Psalmo LXXXI. Deus stetit in synagoga deorum, in medio autem deos discernens. Et iterum illic: Ego dixi: Dii estis et 0702B filii Altissimi omnes; vos autem sicut homines morienimi (Ps. LXXXI, 1, 6, 7). Quod si justi qui fuerint et praeceptis divinis obtemperaverint dii, dici possunt, quanto magis Christus Deus Dei Filius ? Sic ipse in Evangelio cata Joannem dicit: Nonne scriptum est in Lege quoniam ego dixi: Dii estis? Si illos dixit deos ad quos sermo Dei factus est, et non potest solvi Scriptura, quem Pater sanctificavit et misit in saeculum, vos dicitis quoniam blasphemas , quia dixi: Filius Dei sum. Quod si non facio facta Patris, nolite mihi credere ; quod si facio et mihi non vultis credere, factis credite, et cognoscite quoniam in me est Pater, et ego in illo (Joan. X. 34). Item in Evangelio cata Matthaeum: Et vocabitis nomen ejus Emmanuel, quod est interpretatum nobiscum Deus (Matth. I, 23).