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40 primitive Christian beliefs, so too Homily XVII Of the Messiah that He is the Son of God is an echo of one of the most remarkable sayings recorded in S. John's Gospel. The Homily, like so many that Aphraates wrote, is directed against the Jews, who complained that Christians worshipped a man whom they called Son of God, in defiance of God's own word I am God, and there is none beside me (§1).