From His Seven Books of
Hypotyposes or Outlines.
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I.1252
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From book ii. In Athanasius, On the Decrees of the
Nicene Council, sec. xxv. From the edition BB., Paris, 1698,
vol. i. part i. p. 230. Athanasius introduces this fragment in
the following terms:—Learn then, ye Christ-opposing Arians, that
Theognostus, a man of learning, did not decline to use the expression
“of the substance” (ἐκ
τῆς
οὐσίας). For,
writing of the Son in the second book of his Outlines, he has
spoken thus: The substance of the Son.—Tr. |
The substance1253
of the Son is not a substance devised
extraneously,
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nor is it one
introduced out of nothing;
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ἐκ μὴ ὄντων
ἐπεισήχθη. |
but it was
born of the substance of the
Father, as the reflection of
light or as the steam of
water. For the reflection is not the sun
itself, and the steam is not the
water itself, nor yet again is it
anything
alien;
neither is He Himself the Father, nor is He alien,
but He is1256
| 1256 The
words in italics were inserted by Routh from a Catena on the Epistle to
the Hebrews, where they are ascribed to Theognostus: “He
Himself” is the Son. |
an
emanation
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from the
substance of the Father, this substance of the Father suffering the
while no partition. For as the sun remains the same and suffers
no diminution from the rays that are poured out by it, so neither did
the substance of the Father undergo any change in having the Son as an
image of itself.
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