{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010258.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010258.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010258.htm","text":"Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things were made; for \u201call things were made by Him.\u201d 1196 \u201cWhen He made the heaven, I was present with Him; and I was there with Him, forming [the world along with Him], and He rejoiced in me daily.\u201d 1197 And how could a mere man be addressed in such words as these: \u201cSit Thou at My right hand?\u201d 1198 And how, again, could such an one declare: \u201cBefore Abraham was, I am?\u201d 1199 And, \u201cGlorify Me with Thy glory which I had before the world was?\u201d 1200 What man could ever say, \u201cI came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me?\u201d 1201 And of what man could it be said, \u201cHe was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world: He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not?\u201d 1202 How could such a one be a mere man, receiving the beginning of His existence from Mary, and not rather God the Word, and the only-begotten Son? For \u201cin the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 1203 and the Word was God.\u201d 1204 And in another place, \u201cThe Lord created Me, the beginning of His ways, for His ways, for His works. Before the world did He found Me, and before all the hills did He beget Me.\u201d 1205\nProv. 8:27, 30.\n108:1198 108:1199 108:1200 108:1201 108:1202 108:1203 108:1204\nSome insert here John i. 3.\n108:1205\nProv. 8:22, 23, 25.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter VI.\u2014Continuation.","type":"page"}