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Chapter 8.—The Entire Trinity Invisible.
14. Let us therefore say nothing of
those who, with an over carnal mind, have thought the nature of the
Word of God, and the Wisdom, which, “remaining in herself, maketh
all things new,”261
| 261 Wisdom 7.27" id="iv.i.iv.ix-p3.1" parsed="|Wis|7|27|0|0" osisRef="Bible:Wis.7.27">Wisd. vii. 27 | whom we call the only Son of God,
not only to be changeable, but also to be visible. For these, with
more audacity than religion, bring a very dull heart to the inquiry
into divine things. For whereas the soul is a spiritual substance,
and whereas itself also was made, yet could not be made
by any
other than by Him by whom all things were made, and without whom
nothing is made,262
it, although
changeable, is yet not visible; and this they have believed to be
the case with the Word Himself and with the Wisdom of God itself,
by which the soul was made; whereas this Wisdom is not only
invisible, as the soul also is, but likewise unchangeable, which
the soul is not. It is in truth the same unchangeableness in it,
which is referred to when it was said, “Remaining in herself she
maketh all things new.” Yet these people, endeavoring, as it
were, to prop up their error in its fall by testimonies of the
divine Scriptures, adduce the words of the Apostle Paul; and take
that, which is said of the one only God, in whom the Trinity itself
is understood, to be said only of the Father, and neither of the
Son nor of the Holy Spirit: “Now unto the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and
ever;”263
and that
other passage, “The blessed and only Potentate, the King of
kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in
the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen,
nor can see.”264
How these
passages are to be understood, I think we have already discoursed
sufficiently.265
| 265 [For an example of the manner in
which the patristic writers present the doctrine of the divine
invisibility, see Irenæus, Adv. Hæreses, IV.
xx.—W.G.T.S.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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