Whether Jesus himself would have reacted with stupefaction, anger or grief, can never be known. One thing, however, is sure. When Christianity later set out to define the meaning of son of God in its Creed, the paraphrase it produced - 'God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, consubstantial with the Father' - drew its inspiration, not from the pure language and teaching of the Galilean Jesus, nor even from Paul the Diaspora Jew, but from a Gentile-Christian interpretation of the Gospel adapted to the mind of the totally alien world of pagan Hellenism.
- from page 213, Jesus the Jew