IV.
One therefore is God the Father, one the Word, one
the Spirit, the life, the sanctification of all. And neither is
there another God as Father,280
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οὔτε
Θεὸς ἕτερος
ὡς Πατήρ. |
nor is there another Son as Word of
God, nor is there another Spirit as
quickening and sanctifying. Further, although the
saints are
called both gods, and sons, and spirits, they are neither filled with
the Spirit, nor are made like the Son and
God. And if, then, any
one makes this affirmation, that the Son is
God, simply as being
Himself filled with
divinity, and not as being generated of
divinity,
he has belied the Word, he has belied the
Wisdom, he has lost the
knowledge of
God; he has fallen away into the
worship of the creature,
he has taken up the impiety of the
Greeks, to that he has gone back;
and he has become a follower of the
unbelief of the
Jews, who,
supposing the Word of
God to be but a human son, have refused to accept
Him as
God, and have declined to acknowledge Him as the Son of
God. But it is impious to think of the Word of
God as merely
human, and to think of the works which are done by Him as
abiding,
while He
abides not Himself. And if any one says that the
Christ
works all things only as commanded by the Word, he will both make the
Word of
God idle,
281
and will
change the
Lord’s order into servitude. For the
slave is
one altogether under command, and the created is not competent to
create; for to suppose that what is itself created may in like manner
create other things, would imply that it has ceased to be like the
creature.
282
| 282 This
seems the idea in the sentence, οὐ γὰρ
ἐξισωσθήσεται
τῷ κτίσματι
αὐτὸ κατ᾽
οὐδένα
τρόπον, ἵν᾽
ὡς ὑπ᾽
ἐκείνου
ἔκτισται,
οὕτω καὶ
αὐτὸ κτίσῃ
τὰ ἄλλαα. |
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