Dialogue with Trypho 128.4

“But it has been proved that there are angels, who always remain and are not resolved into that from which they came into being; and that this power, which the prophetic word calls God, as has likewise been proved at length, and Angel, is not numbered in name only like the light of the sun, but is also something distinct in number; and I examined the matter briefly in what I said before, saying that this power was begotten from the Father, by his power and will, but not by cutting off, as though the Father's substance were divided, as all other things when divided and cut are not the same as before they were cut; and I took as an example the fires we see kindled from a fire, the one from which many can be kindled being in no way lessened, but remaining the same.