XV.
We therefore acknowledge one true God, the one
First Cause, and one Son, very God of very God, possessing of nature
the Father’s divinity,—that is to say, being the same in
substance with the Father;335
| 335 Note
the phrase here, afterwards formulated, ὁμοούσιον τῷ
Πατρί. [This phrase, with abundant
other tokens, makes it apparent that the work is not
Gregory’s. It is further evident from section xviii.
I should be glad to think otherwise.] |
and one
Holy Spirit, who by
nature and in
truth sanctifies all, and
makes
divine, as being of the substance of
God.
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καὶ
θεοποιὸν ἐκ
τῆς οὐσιας
τοῦ Θεοῦ
υπάρχον. |
Those who speak either of the Son
or of the
Holy Spirit as a creature we anathematize. All other
things we hold to be objects made, and in subjection,
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created by
God through the Son, (and)
sanctified in the
Holy Spirit. Further, we acknowledge that the
Son of
God was made a Son of man, having taken to Himself the
flesh
from the
Virgin Mary, not in name, but in reality; and that He is both
the
perfect Son of
God, and the (
perfect) Son of man,—that the
Person is but one, and that there is one
worship338
for the Word and the
flesh that He
assumed. And we anathematize those who constitute different
worships, one for the
divine and another for the human, and who
worship
the man
born of
Mary as though He were another than the
God of
God. For we know that “in the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with
God, and the Word was
God.”
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And we
worship Him who was made
man on account of our
salvation, not indeed as made perfectly like in
the like body,
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ἶσον ἐν ἴσῳ
γενόμενον τῷ
σώματὶ. |
but as the
Lord who
has taken to Himself the form of the
servant. We acknowledge the
passion of the
Lord in the
flesh, the resurrection in the
power of His
divinity, the ascension to
heaven, and His glorious appearing when He
comes for the judgment of the living and the dead, and for the eternal
life of the saints.
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