the Psalms, wherein it is said of Christ, ‘Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows’ (Ps. 45:7). That the Son of God was not created,* and that there never was a time in which he did not exist, is expressly taught by John the Evangelist, who spoke of him as ‘the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father’ (John 1:18). This divine teacher desired to show that the Father and the Son are inseparable;