Chapter

 1 3 |  yourself on the meaning of the thing rather than on the sound
 2 5 |      word is itself a different thing from yourself. Now how much
 3 7 |        regarded as an objective thing and a person, and so be
 4 7 |          empty, and incorporeal thing. I, on the contrary, contend
 5 7 |       have body? For although a thing may sometimes be made different
 6 7 |       which is a void and empty thing. Is that Word of God, then,
 7 7 |          then, a void and empty thing, which is called the Son,
 8 8 |      say, some prolation of one thing out of another, as Valentinus
 9 8 |    sense each side uses a given thing and the word which expresses
10 9 |         and He through whom the thing is made is another. Happily
11 10|     father. It is, however, one thing to have, and another thing
12 10|      thing to have, and another thing to be. For instance, in
13 11|      Father and the Son? Of one thing He was at any rate afraid
14 11|         the Son: "Is it a great thing for Thee, that Thou shouldest
15 12|      One that commands that the thing be made. and the Other that
16 14|         sure, is an astonishing thing, that the Father can be
17 22|   Witness of what? Of that very thing, to be sure, of which they
18 22|      personal noun) "we are one thing" Unum, not "one person"
19 26|         therefore also the Holy Thing that shall be born of thee
20 26|       is actually the very same thing as that to which it belongs.
21 26|         is an actually existing thing, yet He cannot be God Himself (
22 26|      being an actually existing thing, and as a portion of the
23 26|        not an actually existing thing, as being Spirit in the
24 27|     angel: "Therefore that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee
25 27|       concerning it, "That Holy Thing shall be called the Son
26 27|    transfigured into some other thing ceases to be that which
27 27|         nor can He be any other thing than what He is. The Word
28 29| blasphemy when he said the same thing as we. Besides, as there