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Chapter II.—Unity of the three divine
persons.
There is then
one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no
other besides Him, the only true [God]. For “the Lord thy
God,” saith [the Scripture], “is one Lord.”1305 And again,
“Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father?1306 And there is also one Son, God the Word. For
“the only-begotten Son,” saith [the Scripture], “who is
in the bosom of the Father.”1307 And again,
“One Lord Jesus Christ.”1308 And in
another place, “What is His name, or what His Son’s name,
that we may know?”1309 And there is also one
Paraclete.1310 For “there is also,” saith
[the Scripture], “one Spirit,”1311 since “we have been called in one hope of our
calling.”1312 And again, “We
have drunk of one Spirit,”1313 with what
follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers]
“worketh one and the self-same Spirit.”1314 There are not then either three Fathers,1315
1315 Comp. Athanasian Creed. | or
three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one
Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to
make disciples of all nations, commanded them to “baptize in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,”1316 not unto one [person] having three names, nor
into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of
equal honour.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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