25. Shall any then follow this law confirming the Council of Ariminum wherein Christ is called a creature? But they say, _God sent His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law_. So then He is _made_ they say, that is, created. Will they not consider this very text which they have produced; that Christ is said to be made, but _made of a woman_, that is, He according to His birth from the Virgin was _made_, Who was according to His Divine generation born of the Father? They read too to-day that Christ _redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us_. Was Christ a curse according to His Divinity? But why He should be called a curse the Apostle teaches thee, alleging the text, _Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree_, that is, He Who in His flesh took upon Him our flesh, in His body carried our griefs and our curses that He might crucify them, for He is cursed, not in Himself, but in thee. Lastly, you have in another place, _Who knew no sin, but was made sin for us_, for He took upon Him our sins, to do away with them by the Sacrament of His Passion. 26. These points, my brethren, I would have discussed more fully with you in his presence, but he, being aware that you were not ignorant of the Faith, fled from your scrutiny, and chose as his advocates, if indeed he chose any, four or five heathens, whom I would willingly have now present in our general assembly, not for them to judge of Christ, but that they might hear the majesty of Christ. They however have already pronounced concerning Auxentius, for when he daily argued before them they gave him no credit. What can be a greater condemnation of him than that he was defeated without an adversary before his own judges? Thus we now have their own sentence against Auxentius. Sidenote: 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2. Sidenote: Ib. vi. 5. 27. And justly is he to be condemned for choosing heathen judges, for he disregarded the Apostle’s precept who says _Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?_ And below he says, _Is it so that there is not a wise man among you, no not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?_ Ye see that what he offered is contrary to the Apostle’s authority. Choose whether we should follow Auxentius or Paul as our master? Sidenote: Isa. li. 7. Sidenote: 2 Cor. iii. 3.