0' Very good. But whilst, in dealing with 1 Cor. viii. 6, you acknowledge that the Father is Omnipotent because `all things are of Him,
0' you deny that the Son is Omnipotent, on the strength of the statement that all things are `through
0' Hint Now here (Rom. xi. 36) we find that all things are said to be `through
0' as well as `of
0' One and the same Person-the Father. On your own showing, then, you must conclude that the Father is both Omnipotent (all things being `of
0' Him) and not Omnipotent (all things being only `through
0' Him) at the same time and in the same respect. Which is absurd and impossible. Clearly, then, the inference you want to draw from the difference of the expressions `of Him
0' and `by Him
0' will not stand, if you make Rom. xi. 36 a declaration regarding the Father only. But if you make it a declaration concerning the Son, or even including the Son in its reference, you upset your own position."
146 Rom. xi. 33-36. St. Ambrose's quotation of the passage in extenso shows us how texts ought to be used in argument-namely, not rent from their context, not as unrelated apophthegms.
147 Wisd. vii. 27.
148 "Approaching"-Lat. accedentem. An "accidentem" potius sit legendum?-ut Sapientia non sit accidens, sed proprium, Substantioe Divinoe.
149 Wisd. vii. 30.
150 S. John v. 22.
151 Potest hic manus incuriose transcribentis deprehendi, cum "Pauli" pro "Patris" nomen potius legendum esse videatur. Nec tamen prohibemur quin sic verba intelligamus, ut Pater Ipse in hoc Epistoloe Romanoe loco, per calamum A postoli sit locutus.
152 S. Matt. xi. 27.
153 See §140, and comparison of Ps. cxix. 91, with St. John i. 3; Col. i. 17, and Ps. viii. 8, with Heb. ii. 8.
154 Or "into fellowship with His Son." "Fellowship" in the orig. is communio (koinwnia). 1 Cor. i. 9.
155 Or "as an inferior work."
156 S. John i. 16.
157 1 John i. 3.
158 2 Cor. xiii. 13. "Fellowship" in the Latin of St. Ambrose is (in this citation and that of 1 John i. 3, in §152) communicatio; Greek koinwnia.
159 S. John v. 17.
160 1 John ii. 29.
161 Ps. xi. 8.
162 Or "intending an emblem" or "token (orig. sacramentum) of His Incarnation."
163 Orig. sacramentum.
164 1 Cor. iii. 6.
165 S. John xv. 5.
166 Exod. xv. 11.
167 Ps. lxxxix. 6.
168 sc. is all. See Alford in loc. 1 Cor. iii. 7.
169 Jer. xi. 18.
170 Jer. ii. 21.
171 Num. xiii. 24.
172 i.e. the Incarnate Son of God, not the Pre-existent Logos, is the Vine.
173 S. John xiv. 28.
174 S. Luke ii. ad fin.