De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini

Not but what, when he gave him the use of all earthly things and suffered him to dwell among them, he assigned to him not such a power as he might exercise in common with an earthly governor or monarch, by which he should forcibly rule over the passions of the soul, but he appointed him to be a sort of god, making the whole of the body, and the mind, which is the ruler of the body, subjects and slaves to him; "For I give thee," says he, "as a god to Pharaoh." [*](Exodus vii. 1. ) But God is not susceptible of any subtraction or addition, inasmuch as he is complete and entirely equal to himself.