In this blog post I emphasize the genius of St. Ambrose in defending the Deity of Jesus. He makes the argument that if Jesus commands the Apostles to preach the Gospel to “all creatures” he essentially excludes himself as being a creature. Unless the heretics want to assert that Jesus needs the Gospel preached to Himself which is nonsense and blasphemous itself;
86. It is now made plain, as I believe, your sacred Majesty, that the Lord Jesus is neither unlike the Father, nor one that began to exist in course of time. We have yet to confute another blasphemy, and to show that the Son of God is not a created being. Herein is the quickening word that we read as our help, for we have heard the passage read where the Lord says:
Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to all creation.Mark 16:15 He Who saysall creationexcepts nothing. HOW, THEN, DO THEY STAND WHO CALL CHRIST A “CREATURE? IF HE WERE A CREATURE, COULD HE HAVE COMMANDED THAT THE GOSPEL SHOULD BE PREACHED TO HIMSELF? It is not, therefore, a creature, but the Creator, Who commits to His disciples the work of teaching created beings.
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