You do the deeds of your father.
Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
3. What do you say? You have God for your Father, and do ye blame Christ for asserting this? Do you see that He said that God was His Father in a special manner? When therefore He had cast them out of their relationship to Abraham, having nothing to reply, they dare a greater thing, and betake themselves to God. But from this honor also He expels them, saying,