3. Now this man discovered a nasty means of cavilling at something in my writings, since in commenting upon the passage in which the Lord Jesus said, _I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth_, I stated that it was intended to show that He is the Father of the Son and the Lord of the creature. Nevertheless in the Psalm the Son has plainly called the Father, Lord: _They that looked upon Me shaked their heads: help Me, O Lord My God_. For speaking in the form of a servant He called Him Lord Whom He knew to be His Father; though equal in the form of God, proclaiming Himself to be a servant according to the substance of His flesh; for slavery is of the flesh, lordship of the Godhead. Sidenote: 2 Cor. v. 16. Sidenote: 2 Cor. v. 17. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 7. Sidenote: 2 Cor. v. 21. Sidenote: Gal. iii. 13. Sidenote: 1 Cor. xv. 28. Sidenote: Acts iii. 6. Sidenote: Ib. 13. Sidenote: Rev. v. 12. Sidenote: Ps. xxii. 6. Sidenote: 1 Cor. xv. 55. 4. First then your great sagacity perceives that what is said in the Gospel has reference to the times of the Gospel, when the Lord Jesus dwelt among men in human form; but now _we know Christ according to the flesh no longer_. Be it that He was so seen and known by them of old, now _old things are passed away, all things are become new_. But all things are from God, Who has reconciled us by Christ unto Himself; for we were dead, and therefore One was made a servant for all. Why do I say, a servant? He was made sin, a reproach, a curse. For the Apostle has said that _He was made sin for us_, that the Lord Jesus _was made a curse for us_. He has said, _when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall He also Himself be subject_. Peter also said in the Acts of the Apostles, _In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk_. Then he said also, that God had _glorified His Servant Jesus_, and no one brings any charge against him concerning the time. But in the Apocalypse He is called _a Lamb_ by John, in the Psalm He is called _a worm and no man_. He was made all these things that He might blunt the sting of our death, that He might take away our slavery, that He might abolish our curses, our sins, our reproaches. Sidenote: Exod. xvi. 18. Sidenote: Is. liii. 4. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 7. Sidenote: Ib. 11. Sidenote: Ps. xxii. 7. Sidenote: S. Luke xxiii. 34. Sidenote: Isa. xl. 5. Sidenote: Ib. liii. 2.