30. I recalled the people, and yet I did not escape odium, and this odium ought, I conceive, to be controuled rather than feared. For what should we fear for the name of Christ? Unless perhaps this which they say ought to move me; ‘And ought not the Emperor then to have one Basilica to go to; and does Ambrose desire to be more powerful than the Emperor, so as to exclude him from the liberty of attending Church?’ When they say this, they wish to lay hold of my words, like the Jews who tempted Christ with empty words, saying, _Master, is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar or not?_ Must the servants of God always be exposed to odium on Cæsar’s account? And does impiety, with a view to calumny, seek to use the Imperial name as a cloak? And can they protest that they do not partake of the sacrilege of these men, whose guidance they follow? Sidenote: Ib. 18. sqq. 31. Yet see how much worse the Arians are than the Jews. The latter enquired of Christ whether He thought that the right of tribute should be rendered to Cæsar; the former are willing to surrender to the Emperor the rights of the Church. But like traitors, they follow their master, and so let us answer what our Lord and Master hath taught us. For Jesus perceiving the treachery of the Jews, said unto them, _Why tempt ye Me, shew Me a penny. And when they gave it to Him, He said, Whose image and whose superscription is this? They answered, Cæsar’s. Jesus replied, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s._ Thus I also say to them who find fault with me, _Shew Me a penny_. Jesus saw the penny was Cæsar’s, and said, _Render unto Cæsar ♦the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s_. Can they from the seizure of the Basilicas of the Church offer the penny of Cæsar? Sidenote: Gen. i. 26. Sidenote: Heb. i. 3. Sidenote: S. John xiv. 9. Sidenote: Ib. x. 30. Sidenote: Ib. xvi. 15. Sidenote: Ib. 16. 32. But in the Church I know one image, that is, the image of the invisible God, of which God said, _Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness_, that image of which it is written, that Christ is _the brightness of His glory, the express image of His substance_. In this image I behold the Father, as the Lord Jesus Himself said, _He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father also_. For this Image is not divided from the Father, for He hath taught me the unity of the Trinity, saying, _I and the Father are One_, and below, _All things that the Father hath are Mine_. And of the Holy Spirit, saying, that He is the Spirit of Christ, and hath received from Christ, as it is written, _He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you_. Sidenote: Prov. xix. 17.