III.
If, then, there are any here, too, who falsify the
holy faith, either by attributing to the divinity as its own what
belongs to the humanity—progressions,276
and passions, and a
glory coming with
accession
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τὴν
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—or by
separating from the
divinity the progressive and passible body, as if
subsisted of itself apart,—these persons also are
outside the confession of the
Church and of
salvation. No one, therefore, can know
God unless
he
apprehends the Son; for the Son is the
wisdom by whose
instrumentality all things have been
created; and these
created objects
declare this
wisdom, and
God is recognised in the
wisdom. But the
wisdom of
God is not anything similar to the
wisdom which man
possesses, but it is the
perfect wisdom which proceeds from the
perfect
God, and
abides for ever, not like the thought of man, which passes
from him in the word that is spoken and (straightway) ceases to
be. Wherefore it is not
wisdom only, but also
God; nor is it Word
only, but also Son. And whether, then, one
discerns God through
creation, or is taught to know Him by the Holy Scriptures, it is
impossible either to
apprehend Him or to
learn of Him apart from His
wisdom. And he who calls upon
God rightly, calls on Him through
the Son; and he who approaches Him in a true fellowship, comes to Him
through Christ. Moreover, the Son Himself cannot be approached
apart from the Spirit. For the Spirit is both the life and the
holy formation of all things;
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and God sending forth this Spirit through the Son makes the
creature
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like
Himself.
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