175. The reason why the Lord so often names the Father was because the Lord, before His Advent, was Himself that which is called the Father; and then the Son was the Divine Proceeding or the Word. This then was the Son and also the Divine Human. For this reason, too, in the Old Testament, before the Lord was born and called the Son of God as to the Divine Human, they knew no other Father because there was no other. Therefore He so often mentions the Father, but afterwards the Lord was made the Father even as to the Divine Human and from this is the Divine Proceeding.