Anf-01 viii.iv.lix Pg 3
Ex. ii. 23.
and so on until, ‘Go and gather the elders of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I am surely beholding you, and the things which have befallen you in Egypt.’ ”2163 2163
Anf-01 ix.vi.viii Pg 16
Ex. iii. 7, 8.
For the Son, who is the Word of God, arranged these things beforehand from the beginning, the Father being in no want of angels, in order that He might call the creation into being, and form man, for whom also the creation was made; nor, again, standing in need of any instrumentality for the framing of created things, or for the ordering of those things which had reference to man; while, [at the same time,] He has a vast and unspeakable number of servants. For His offspring and His similitude3879 3879 Massuet here observes, that the fathers called the Holy Spirit the similitude of the Son.
do minister to Him in every respect; that is, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Word and Wisdom; whom all the angels serve, and to whom they are subject. Vain, therefore, are those who, because of that declaration, “No man knoweth the Father, but the Son,”3880 3880
Anf-01 ix.vi.xiii Pg 13
Ex. iii. 7, 8.
it being customary from the beginning with the Word of God to ascend and descend for the purpose of saving those who were in affliction.
