9. “And the word (sermo) of the Lord came to Ezekiel, son of Buzi, the priest” [Ezek 1:3]. This is the “word (sermo) of the Lord,” who “in the beginning was God, the Word (verbum) with the Father” [John 1:1]. This is the word that makes believers into gods [cf. 2 Pet 2:4]. For “if he called them gods [cf. Ps 82:6],39 to whom the word (sermo) of God came, and Scripture cannot be broken” [cf. John 10:35], and to whomever the word of God has come, they become gods, then Ezekiel