Victor Vitensis

In his own words on Wisdom of Solomon

• Wisdom of Solomon 16:21

  Therefore, the substance of the Father is designated as the Son by the prophetic oracles long ago, as Solomon says: For you showed your substance and sweetness, which you have for your sons (Wis. 16:21), which appeared to have flowed down to the people of Israel from heaven in the form and image of heavenly bread. The Lord Himself explained this in the Gospel, saying: Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you bread from heaven (Jn. 6:32); clearly designating Himself as the bread when He says: I am the living bread which came down from heaven (Ibid. 41). Of whom also the prophet David says: Man ate the bread of angels (Ps. 77:25). For in order to show even more clearly the unity of substance and equality of divinity between the Father and the Son, He Himself says in the Gospel: I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. And: I and the Father are one (Jn. 10:38, 30). This refers not only to the unity of will, but to one and the same substance.

  History of the Persecution of the African Province, PL 58, 3.23.3