Annotatio CLVIII

”I said: [O Lord,] thou art my God.” — Psalm 15:2

Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, in the commentaries on the Psalms, brought forward, for the interpreting of these words, certain things favoring the Arian dogma concerning the inequality of the Father and the Son;¹ and these are they: “By the law of nature, the father of any son whatsoever is also his lord; on that account, of the only-begotten Son of God, he who begot him is also his father, and Lord, and God, and Father.” This opinion the same Eusebius, repeated in a prolix discourse, explains in the epistle to Alexander, the preceptor of Athanasius, whose beginning is, “With how great labor and diligence I have entered upon these letters.” Epiphanius the Deacon noted this in the sixth action [session] of the Second Synod of Nicaea.