in these words too we have a clear demonstration of the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father. For I know that comparisons must strictly apply to things of the same nature. Thus we speak of an angel as greater than an angel, and of a man as juster than a man, and of a bird as swifter than a bird. If, then, comparisons arise only among objects of the same species, and by comparison the Father has been called greater than the Son, then the Son is consubstantial with the Father. But there is