The grace of God came to you and ‘gave you the power to become the sons of God’ (John 1:12). Hear
the voice of my Father saying, ‘I have said, you are gods and all of
you children of the Most High’ (Ps. 82:6). Since then they are men, and
the sons of men, if they are not the children of the Most High,, they
are lairs, for, ‘all men are lairs’ (Ps. 116:11). If they are the sons
of God, if they have been redeemed by the Saviour’s grace, if purchased
with the precious blood, if born again of water and of the Spirit, if
predestinated to be the inheritance of heave, then indeed they are
children of God. And so thereby are gods. What then would a lie have to
do with you? Fro Adam was a mere man; Christ, man and God; God,
the Creator of all creation. Adam a mere man, the man Christ, the
mediator with God, the only Son of the Father, the God-man. You, O man,
are far from God, and God is far above man; between them the God man
placed himself. Acknowleddge Christ and by him as man ascend up to God.
（Serm. 81.6, Pg 38.503, NPNF, Augustine of Hippo – 奥古斯丁）
