For if we conceive of this thing according to our weakness, when he who receives begins to have, he who gives begins to be without.
Or when He says, “All things are committed to him,” He may mean, not the heaven and earth and the elements, and the rest of the things which He created and made, but those who through the Son have access to the Father.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).