And that the Christ, being Lord, and God the Son of God, and formerly appearing in power as a man and an angel, and in the glory of fire as in the bush, was so manifested also at the judgement executed upon Sodom, has been demonstrated in many of the things said. And I again recounted all that I had also written down before from Exodus, concerning the vision at the bush and the calling upon the name of Jesus, and I added:
And do not suppose, sirs, that I say these things repeatedly out of superfluity, but because I know that there are also some who wish to anticipate these things, and to assert that the power which appeared from the Father of all to Moses or to Abraham or to Jacob is called Angel in His coming forth to men, since through it the things from the Father are announced to men; and Glory, since He sometimes appears in an apparition that cannot be contained; and is sometimes called Man and human being, since He appears fashioned in such forms as the Father wills; and they call Him Word, since He bears the converses of the Father to men.
And they say that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, in the manner that they say the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable, the sun being in heaven; and when it sets, the light is carried away with it; so the Father, when He wills, they say, makes His power leap forth, and when He wills, again withdraws it into Himself. And in this manner, they teach, He also makes the angels.
But that there are indeed angels, who ever remain and are not dissolved into that out of which they came to be, has been demonstrated; and that this power, which the prophetic word also calls God, as has likewise been demonstrated through many passages, and Angel, is not numbered merely in name, as the light of the sun, but is something other also in number, I examined in brief in what was said before, saying that this power was begotten from the Father by His power and will, yet not by severance, as though the Father's substance were divided—as all other things, when divided and cut, are not the same as they were before they were cut; and by way of example I had taken that we see other fires kindled from a fire, the one from which many can be kindled being in no way diminished, but remaining the same.