9. While, then, He was in the form of a servant, humbled even unto death, He yet remained in the glory of God. What injury then was His state of subjection to Him? We read that He was made a servant, because we read that He was made of a Virgin and created in the flesh, for every creature is a servant, as the Prophet says; _For all things serve Thee_. Wherefore also God the Father says, _I have found David My servant, with My holy oil have I anointed him. He shall call Me, Thou art my Father, my God, and my strong salvation; and I will make him My first-born_; and in another Psalm, _Preserve Thou my soul for I am holy: save Thy servant_, and afterwards in the same Psalm, _Give Thy strength unto Thy servant, and help the son of Thy handmaid_. Thus I have collected the words of the Father and of the Son, that I may answer not with human arguments but by the Divine oracles. Sidenote: Ps. xxxi. 5. Sidenote: Ib. 8. Sidenote: Ib. 11. Sidenote: Ib. 16. Sidenote: Isa. xlix. 1–3. Sidenote: Ib. xli. 8. Sidenote: S. John i. 18. 10. In another passage He says, _Into Thy hands I commend My spirit_, and, _Thou hast set My feet in a large room_, and, _I became a reproof among all Mine enemies_. And in the same Psalm, _Shew Thy servant the light of Thy countenance_. By the mouth of Isaiah too the Son of God Himself says, _From my mother’s womb the Lord hath called My name, and He hath made My mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand hath He hid Me, and made Me a polished shaft; in His quiver hath He hid Me; and said unto Me, Thou art My servant, O Israel_. For the Son of God is also called Israel, as in another place, _But thou, Israel, My Servant Jacob, whom I have chosen_. For He alone hath truly not only seen but also declared God the Father. Sidenote: Isa. xlix. 3, 4, 5. Sidenote: Isa. xlix. 6. Sidenote: Ib. xlii. 6. xlix. 6. Sidenote: Ezek. xxxiv. 23, 24. Sidenote: Zech. iii. 8. Sidenote: Ib. iii. 3.