—for God, Mighty and Majestic, the One who alone possesses true divinity, exalted be His praise, said in the Torah to Moses, peace be upon him:

“I have made you a god to Aaron, and I have made him your prophet.”

And in another place He said:

“I have made you, O Moses, a god to Pharaoh.”

David likewise said in the Psalms, addressing those endowed with wisdom:

“All of you are gods, and from on high you are so called.”

If you object, “God made Moses a god to Aaron only in the sense of placing him in authority over him,”

we reply: Isaiah spoke of the Messiah in exactly the same way, declaring that he would be a god to his nation in this figurative sense—so wherein lies the difference?

And if you say, “The Messiah himself stated in the Gospel, ‘Whoever has seen me has seen my Father, and I and my Father are one,’”

we answer: His words, “I and my Father are one,” mean nothing more than that your acceptance of my command is tantamount to your acceptance of God’s command, just as a man’s envoy might say, “I and the one who sent me are one.”