Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.
But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?
The maiden will conceive and bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel (which may be translated, God is with us).
But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)