Justin Martyr, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
Yes, and I held it against Trypho from his own books. The one who appeared to Abraham, to Jacob and to Moses, and who is called God, is distinct from Him who made all things, numerically distinct and not distinct in will. I affirm that He has never done anything which the Maker of the world, above whom there is no other God, has not wished Him both to do and to engage Himself with.1
Trypho himself asked what any careful hearer would ask: that I not make this One do or say anything contrary to the will of the Maker. I do not. Consider Mamre. Moses declares that He who appeared to Abraham under the oak is God, sent with the two angels to judge Sodom by Another, who remains ever in the supercelestial places, invisible to all men and holding intercourse with none, whom we believe to be Maker and Father of all things.2
Trypho and his friends said they understood the words, yet saw in them no proof of any other God or Lord besides the Maker.3 So I put the case more narrowly. Scripture itself says that the Lord rained on Sodom sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.4 Two Lords are named in one verse, and one rains the fire from the other. David says the same: The Lord says to my Lord, Sit on My right hand, and again, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee.5
If the Holy Spirit calls any one God and Lord besides the Father of all and His Christ, let Trypho tell me who. I undertook to show that the Lord who rained the fire is not one of the two angels who went to Sodom, but He who was with them and appeared to Abraham. Why is He called Angel? Because He announces to men whatever the Maker of all things, above whom there is no other God, wishes to announce to them.6
He is another God and Lord, subject to the Maker. I do not say lesser in will or severed from Him. This is also the quarrel I have with the Jews in the First Apology. They have it written in Moses that the angel of God spoke from the bush, I am the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, yet they maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.
Therefore the Spirit of prophecy rebukes them: Israel doth not know Me, my people have not understood Me.7 He who spoke to Moses was the Son of God, called both Angel and Apostle. Those who say the Son is the Father have known neither Father nor Son, for they do not know that the Father of the universe has a Son, who, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God.8
Of old He appeared in the shape of fire and in the likeness of an angel to Moses and the other prophets, and now, in the times of your reign, He has become man of a virgin, by the counsel of the Father, for the salvation of those who believe.
The God who appeared to Abraham at Mamre, wrestled with Jacob and spoke to Moses from the bush was not the Father, who stays above the heavens, holds intercourse with no one and has no name, but another God and Lord under him: his Word, Wisdom, Glory, Angel and Son, begotten before all creatures by the Father's power and will, as fire is kindled from fire without lessening it.
He is distinct from the Father in number, not in will; he never did anything the Maker did not will. Christians worship him in the second place, with the prophetic Spirit in the third, and he became man of the virgin.910
numerically, I mean, not [distinct] in will. For I affirm that He has never at any time done anything which He who made the world--above whom there is no other God--has not wished Him both to do and to engage Himself with.Dialogue with Trypho
Moses, then, the blessed and faithful servant of God, declares that He who appeared to Abraham under the oak in Mamre is God, sent with the two angels in His company to judge Sodom by Another who remains ever in the supercelestial places, invisible to all men, holding personal intercourse with none, whom we believe to be Maker and Father of all thingsDialogue with Trypho
they had understood them, but that the passages adduced brought forward no proof that there is any other God or Lord, or that the Holy Spirit says so, besides the Maker of all things.Dialogue with Trypho
the Lord rained on Sodom sulphur and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and overthrew these cities and all the neighbourhood.Dialogue with Trypho
The Lord says to my Lord, Sit on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool,' as I have already quoted. And again, in other words: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.Dialogue with Trypho
there is, and that there is said to be, another God and Lord subject to the Maker of all things; who is also called an Angel, because He announces to men whatsoever the Maker of all things--above whom there is no other God--wishes to announce to them.Dialogue with Trypho
the Spirit of prophecy rebukes them, and says, 'Israel doth not know Me, my people have not understood Me.'The First Apology
For they who affirm that the Son is the Father, are proved neither to have become acquainted with the Father, nor to know that the Father of the universe has a Son; who also, being the first-begotten Word of God, is even God.The First Apology
And in order that the Holy Spirit may convince [us] of this, He said by the holy David, The gods of the nations, reputed gods, are idols of demons, and not gods;' and He denounces a curse on those who worship them." And I replied, "I would not bring forward these proofs, Trypho, by which I am aware those who worship these [idols] and such like are condemned, but such [proofs] as no one could find any objection to.Dialogue with Trypho
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.Dialogue with Trypho
The first sustained argument for the Son's divinity from the Hebrew Scriptures, and the doctrine for which later orthodoxy most often faulted him as subordinationist.