And if they should say, “The Messiah was called ‘son’ only because the primordial Word—which itself is the Son—had united with him beforehand; End the opponents’ quotation after “beforehand” and place the passage beginning “therefore the human nature” outside it as the author’s response. then what would prevent you from declaring the mother of that very human nature—whom you have styled the Son of God—to be God’s consort and wife as well, seeing that from both the Pre-Eternal and from her there came forth what you call the Son of the Pre-Eternal?

The fifteenth point:
One may say that the expressions “son” and “Holy Spirit” are, according to your own books, applied to others besides the Messiah. Even the disciples, you report, quote the Messiah as saying,
“Indeed, God is my Father and your Father, my God and your God,”
and they assert that the Holy Spirit dwells within them.

Moreover, in the Torah you possess it is written that the Lord said to Moses:
“Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is My firstborn son. Let him go so that he may worship Me. If you refuse to release My firstborn son, I will slay your firstborn son.’ When Pharaoh did not release the Children of Israel as God had commanded, God killed the firstborn of Pharaoh and his people—from Pharaoh’s firstborn who sat upon the throne, to the firstborn of mankind, and even the firstborn of their cattle.”

Thus, this Torah calls all the Children of Israel the sons of God and His firstborn, and it calls