And the LORD said unto Moses,
See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
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John of Damascus
AD 749
I say that they are gods, lords and kings not by nature but because they have ruled over and dominated sufferings and because they have kept undebased the likeness of the divine image to which they were made—for the image of the king is also called a king. Finally … they have freely been united to God and [by] receiving him as a dweller within themselves have through association with him become by grace what he is by nature.