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  1 1 |        approached Him as "the Son of God;" surely intimating that
  2 1 |               surely intimating that God had a Son, even on the testimony
  3 1 |                If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones
  4 1 |                If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from
  5 1 |          them, I declare that it was God Himself that I approached;
  6 1 |             had been only the Son of God, most likely I should never
  7 1 |               not having the love of God, whose very gifts he has
  8 1 |          exposed by him whose agency God was pleased to employ. Indeed,
  9 2 |              and the Father suffered,God Himself, the Lord Almighty,
 10 2 |       believe that there is one only God, but under the following
 11 2 |           called, that this one only God has also a Son, His Word,
 12 2 |            of her being both Man and God, the Son of Man and the
 13 2 |            Son of Man and the Son of God, and to have been called
 14 2 |           cannot believe in One Only God in any other way than by
 15 2 |         power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees
 16 3 |            gods to the one only true God; not understanding that,
 17 3 |          although He is the one only God, He must yet be believed
 18 3 |         being worshippers of the One God; just as if the Unity itself
 19 3 |               or, sole government of God). And so, as far as the
 20 3 |            how comes it to pass that God should be thought to suffer
 21 3 |               when, e.g., some other god is introduced in opposition
 22 4 |              names as it has pleased God to employ. But it remains
 23 4 |          delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; for He
 24 4 |           all things under Him, that God may be all in all." We thus
 25 5 |      EVOLUTION OF THE SON OR WORD OF GOD FROM THE FATHER BY A DIVINE
 26 5 |            Hebrew: "In the beginning God made for Himself a Son."
 27 5 |         other arguments derived from God's own dispensation, in which
 28 5 |           Son. For before all things God was alone being in Himself
 29 5 |             say, His own Reason. For God is rational, and Reason
 30 5 |            was in the beginning with God; although it would be more
 31 5 |            the more ancient; because God had not Word from the beginning,
 32 5 |       practical moment. For although God had not yet sent out His
 33 5 |            the image and likeness of God," for what purpose it is
 34 5 |            is all this transacted in God, whose image and likeness
 35 5 |             creation of the universe God was not alone, since He
 36 6 |                      VI. THE WORD OF GOD IS ALSO THE WISDOM OF GOD.
 37 6 |            GOD IS ALSO THE WISDOM OF GOD. THE GOING FORTH OF WISDOM
 38 6 |            the Reason or the Word of God? Listen therefore to Wisdom
 39 6 |           Now, as soon as it pleased God to put forth into their
 40 6 |             mind and intelligence of God. This, however, was still
 41 7 |            and vocal utterance, when God says, "Let there be light."
 42 7 |          when He proceeds forth from God formed by Him first to devise
 43 7 |            because alone begotten of God, m a way peculiar to Himself,
 44 7 |           initiated for the works of God? which "strengthened the
 45 7 |            He became also the Son of God, and was begotten when He
 46 7 |          being constituted second to God the Father,) to make two,
 47 7 |              the Father and the Son, God and the Word. For you will
 48 7 |           could have come forth from God, seeing that it is not put
 49 7 |         empty thing. Is that Word of God, then, a void and empty
 50 7 |            who Himself is designated God? "The Word was with God,
 51 7 |              God? "The Word was with God, and the Word was God."
 52 7 |           with God, and the Word was God." It is written, " Thou
 53 7 |       written, " Thou shalt not take God's name in vain." This for
 54 7 |            who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery
 55 7 |             robbery to be equal with God." In what form of God? Of
 56 7 |           with God." In what form of God? Of course he means in some
 57 7 |               For who will deny that God is a body, although "GOd
 58 7 |             God is a body, although "GOd is a Spirit?" For Spirit
 59 7 |          substance and their form in God, whereby they are visible
 60 7 |          whereby they are visible to God alone, how much more shall
 61 8 |            THOUGH THE SON OR WORD OF GOD EMANATES FROM THE FATHER,
 62 8 |         counterfeit. Was the Word of God put forth or not? Here take
 63 8 |       knoweth the things which be in God, but the Spirit which is
 64 8 |          Father;" and is always with God, according to what is written, "
 65 8 |                And the Word was with God;" and never separate from
 66 8 |              separated from Him. For God sent forth the Word, as
 67 8 |            this true of) the Word of God, who has actually received
 68 8 |              the Word separated from God. Following, therefore, the
 69 8 |     analogies, I confess that I call God and His Word the Father
 70 8 |          Spirit indeed is third from God and the Son; just as the
 71 10|              And the relations which God establishes, them does He
 72 10|             the Son. Well, but "with God nothing is impossible."
 73 10|           with men are possible with God?" The foolish things also
 74 10|        things also of the world hath God chosen to confound the things
 75 10|             it was not difficult for God to make Himself both a Father
 76 10|        nature was no difficulty with God; nor was it for a virgin
 77 10|   imaginations, we may then make out God to have done anything we
 78 10|       whether He has really done it. God could, if He had liked,
 79 10|         something difficult even for God namely, that which He has
 80 10|           would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be
 81 10|        ability. Since, therefore, if God had wished to make Himself
 82 11|              as) that Being which is God. If it was possible for
 83 11|          part I produce the words of God Himself, "My heart hath
 84 11|     opposition to me some text where God has said, "My heart hath
 85 11|              He is both the Word and God. I bid you also observe,
 86 11|         effect. Why, moreover, could God the Lord of all things,
 87 11|            therefore, to be the true God, I am sure that He declared
 88 11|       statement would be unworthy of God, that, widen it was Himself
 89 11|              Christ (as speaking) to God. Observe also the Spirit
 90 12| distinguishes among the Persons: "So God created man in His own image;
 91 12|           own image; in the image of God created He him." Why say "
 92 12|              him." Why say "image of God?" Why not "His own image"
 93 12|         there was One in whose image God was making man, that is
 94 12|           has not yet appeared: "And God said, Let there be light,
 95 12|              world. From that moment God willed creation to be effected
 96 12|         ministering unto Him: and so God created. And God said, "
 97 12|              and so God created. And God said, "Let there be a firmament, . .
 98 12|              be a firmament, . . and God made the firmament;" and
 99 12|             made the firmament;" and God also said. "Let there be
100 12|            in the firmament); and so God made a greater and a lesser
101 12|              ones I mean the Word of God. "through whom all things
102 12|              made." Now if He too is God, according to John, (who
103 12|             who says.) "The Word was God," then you have two Beings
104 13|           then, you reply, if He was God who spoke, and He was also
105 13|           who spoke, and He was also God who created, at this rate,
106 13|           created, at this rate, one God spoke and another created; (
107 13|           which Two are described as God: "Thy throne, O God, is
108 13|     described as God: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the
109 13|            hated iniquity: therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed
110 13|              therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee or made
111 13|              since He here speaks to God, and affirms that God is
112 13|             to God, and affirms that God is anointed by God, He must
113 13|              that God is anointed by God, He must have affirmed that
114 13|           have affirmed that Two are God, by reason of the sceptre'
115 13|          shall worship Thee, because God is in Thee: for Thou art
116 13|            in Thee: for Thou art our God, yet we knew it not; Thou
117 13|            knew it not; Thou art the God of Israel." For here too,
118 13|            For here too, by saying, "God is in Thee, and "Thou art
119 13|            is in Thee, and "Thou art God," he sets forth Two who
120 13|              sets forth Two who were God: (in the former expression
121 13|          Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
122 13|           with God, and the Word was God." There was One "who was,"
123 13|             Himself to be the Son of God, because they would not
124 13|              Most High;" and again, "God standeth in the congregation
125 13|              who have become sons of God by faith, you may be sure
126 13|             true and one-only Son of God. Very well! you say, I shall
127 13|        consistently with your views. God forbid, (is my reply.) For
128 13|              we, who by the grace of God possess an insight into
129 13|          declare that Two Beings are God, the Father and the Son,
130 13|            untrue that the Father is God, and the Son is God, and
131 13|        Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God,
132 13|           God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and each is God; but because
133 13|            Ghost is God, and each is God; but because in earlier
134 13|           were actually spoken of as God, and two as Lord, that when
135 13|              be both acknowledged as God and designated as Lord,
136 13|           the Son of Him who is both God and Lord. Now, if there
137 13|            Personality of Him who is God and Lord, Christ would justly
138 13|         inadmissible to the title of God and Lord: for (in the Scriptures)
139 13|            to be none other than One God and One Lord, and it must
140 13|         earth), inasmuch as only One God and One Lord was ever read
141 13|              the title of Him who is God and Lord was at once restored
142 13|          their idols to the One Only God, in order that a difference
143 13|       between the worshippers of One God and the votaries of polytheism.
144 13|          invoking Him who is the One God and Lord as "the light of
145 13|         assures us that the title of God and Lord is suitable both
146 13|             I shall call the Father "God," and invoke Jesus Christ
147 13|           shall be able to call Him "God," as the same apostle says: "
148 13|             Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever." For I
149 13|              undivided substance, as God and His Word, as the Father
150 14|       principle which has determined God to be invisible. When Moses
151 14|             see Thee and know Thee," God said, "Thou canst not see
152 14|          shall die. Now we find that God has been seen by many persons,
153 14|               The truth is, they saw God according to the faculties
154 14|     patriarchs are said to have seen God (as Abraham and Jacob),
155 14|             runs), "No man shall see God, and live ;" or else if
156 14|          live ;" or else if they saw God, and yet did not die, the
157 14|             is false in stating that God said, "If a man see my face,
158 14|           misleads us, when it makes God invisible, and when it produces
159 14|              also says, "I have seen God face to face." Therefore
160 14|             invisible, in that He is God, and the Word and Spirit
161 14|           and the Word and Spirit of God; but that He was visible
162 14|            in vision and dream, that God, I mean the Son of God,
163 14|          that God, I mean the Son of God, appeared to the prophets
164 14|              Or what is that fade of God, the sight of which is refused,
165 14|         visible to man? "I have seen God," says Jacob, "face to face,
166 14|          although He was the face of God, except only in vision and
167 14|              the Word and Spirit (of God) cannot be seen except in
168 14|           for "the head of Christ is God."~
169 15|             visible and an invisible God (revealed to us), under
170 15|              John: "No man hath seen God at any time;'' meaning,
171 15|              of time, by saying that God had never been seen. The
172 15|          statement; for, speaking of God, he says, "Whom no man hath
173 15|           Word in the beginning with God" the Father, and not the
174 15|            For although the Word was God, yet was He with God, because
175 15|             was God, yet was He with God, because He is God of God;
176 15|              with God, because He is God of God; and being joined
177 15|            God, because He is God of God; and being joined to the
178 15|            had said that the Word of God was God, in order that he
179 15|             that the Word of God was God, in order that he might
180 15|              were: "No man hath seen God at any time.'' What God
181 15|              God at any time.'' What God does he mean? The Word?
182 15|              I must again ask,) what God does he mean? It is of course
183 15|              expressly called Christ God, saying: "Of whom are the
184 15|        Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever." He shows
185 15|              us also that the Son of God, which is the Word of God,
186 15|            God, which is the Word of God, is visible, because He
187 15|               invisible, to the only God;" so that we might apply
188 15|         there: "For no man shall see God, and live." This being the
189 16|         MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD, AS RECORDED IN THE OLD
190 16|           that time has been done by God. For "the Father who loveth
191 16|          beginning the Word was with God, and the Word was God;"
192 16|           with God, and the Word was God;" to whom "is given by the
193 16|             He ever learning even as God to converse with men upon
194 16|              believe that the Son of God had come down into the world,
195 16|          assumptions) as unworthy of God, in order to discredit the
196 16|          suitable even to the Son of God, which you are imputing
197 16|          that the Almighty Invisible God, "whom no man hath seen
198 16|          believed even of the Son of God, unless they had been given
199 16|           who says: "The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of
200 16|            that it was uniformly one God, even the Father, who at
201 17|              for the Father's names, God Almighty, the Most High,
202 17|      therefore, you read of Almighty God, and the Most High, and
203 17|           and the Most High, and the God of hosts, and the King of
204 17|              who in His own right is God Almighty, in that He is
205 17|              is the Word of Almighty God, and has received power
206 17|         exalted at the right hand of God," as Peter declares in the
207 17|              designation of Almighty God unsuitable to the Son. As
208 17|          much almighty as the Son of God is God.~
209 17|        almighty as the Son of God is God.~
210 18|           THE DESIGNATION OF THE ONE GOD IN THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES.
211 18|       CORRELATIVE IDEA OF THE SON OF GOD. THE SON IS IN THE FATHER.~
212 18|               whenever it determines God to be but One; as if the
213 18|           also set forth Two both as God and Lord, as we have shown
214 18|          when it sets forth one only God, and also when it shows
215 18|              rightly determined that God is only One, to whom the
216 18|              Therefore "there is one God," the Father, "and without
217 18|          says that there is no other God; and the Son is not different
218 18|               then, that there is no God' besides Himself in respect
219 18|            to say, they make another God and another Christ. When,
220 18|            to have come from another God, but from Him who had already
221 18|              had already said, "I am God and there is none other
222 18|         shows us that He is the only God, but in company with His
223 19|         OPPOSED TO THE TRUE UNITY OF GOD. IT IS OPPOSED ONLY TO PRAXEAS'
224 19|              the Wisdom and Power of God," according to the apostle,
225 19|        knoweth the things that be in God, except the Spirit which
226 19|             therefore One who caused God to be not alone, except "
227 19|              all things were made by God through the Word, without
228 19|              this Word, the Power of God and the Wisdom of God, must
229 19|             of God and the Wisdom of God, must be the very Son of
230 19|              must be the very Son of God. So that, if (He did) all
231 19|             vindicating the unity of God, that unity of His is preserved
232 19|            described in Scripture as God and Lord. And to prevent
233 19|            named apart, He is called God, He does not thereby constitute
234 19|             is entitled to be called God, from His union with the
235 20|             nothing else than, "I am God, and beside me there is
236 20|            and beside me there is no God ;" so in the Gospel they
237 21|          Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
238 21|           with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning
239 21|            was in the beginning with God: all things were made by
240 21|          always was: one the Word of God, the other God although
241 21|           the Word of God, the other God although the Word is also
242 21|            although the Word is also God, but God regarded as the
243 21|            the Word is also God, but God regarded as the Son of God,
244 21|           God regarded as the Son of God, not as the Father); One
245 21|         statement: "No man hath seen God at any time." Then, again,
246 21|             Baptist) as "the Lamb of God," He is not described as
247 21|            no doubt, ever the Son of God, but yet not He Himself
248 21|       occasion: "Thou art the Son of God." And He affirmed Himself
249 21|           confessed to be the Son of God; and the Father in heaven,
250 21|           that Christ was the Son of God. When He entered the temple,
251 21|            to Nicodemus He says: "So God loved the world, that He
252 21|   everlasting life." And again: "For God sent not His Son into the
253 21|             the only-begotten Son of God." Moreover, when John (the
254 21|           see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.'' Whom,
255 21|               the Christ, the Son of God," and not the Father. He
256 21|            also because He said that God was His Father, thus making
257 21|            making Himself equal with God. Then indeed did He answer
258 21|              the voice of the Son of God; and when they have heard
259 21|             as He is also the Son of God through His Spirit. Afterwards
260 21|           the Almighty and Most High God, and King, and Lord. To
261 21|        should do to work the works o God," He answered, This is the
262 21|        answered, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him
263 22|          truth which I have heard of God;" and again, "If God were
264 22|              of God;" and again, "If God were your Father, ye would
265 22|        proceeded forth and came from God " (still they are not hereby
266 22|              but His coming out from God is like the ray's procession
267 22|              ye say, that He is your God: yet ye have not known Him,
268 22|           thou believe in the Son of God?" Then, upon the man's inquiring
269 22|       Himself to him, as that Son of God whom He had announced to
270 22|             of course, the Christ of God; for to this day the Jews
271 22|           Himself, but the Christ of God, it being nowhere said that
272 22|        whether He were the Christ of God. Then, again, concerning
273 22|          claimed to be considered as God Himself, that is, the Father,
274 22|             s divine Son, and not as God Himself, He says, "If it
275 22|             He said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of
276 23|    acknowledged Him to be the Son of God, she no more made a mistake
277 23|               We know, however, that God is in the bottomless depths,
278 23|            versatile and changeful a God as yours! Therefore it was
279 23|         should speak." For "the Lord God hath given me the tongue
280 23|            and that He had come from God, and was going to God."
281 23|           from God, and was going to God." Praxeas, however, would
282 23|             It was, then, the Son of God, who was in the Son of man,
283 23|            Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him." Who
284 23|                Who is here meant by "God?" Certainly not the Father,
285 23|          divine power and word. "And God," says He, "shall also glorify
286 24|           Testament as the Christ of God, in the New Testament as
287 24|              Testament as the Son of God. In this character was He
288 24|        remembered: "No man shall see God, and live." So he is reproved
289 25|     distinction from the Father, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken
290 25|           and your Father, and to my God and your God." Now, does
291 25|               and to my God and your God." Now, does this mean, I
292 25|         Father to the Father, and as God to God? Or as the Son to
293 25|            the Father, and as God to God? Or as the Son to the Father,
294 25|           Father, and as the Word to God? Wherefore also does this
295 25|           Jesus Christ is the Son of God?" Whenever, therefore, you
296 26|         angel himself as 'the Son of God: "The Spirit of God shall
297 26|           Son of God: "The Spirit of God shall come upon thee, and
298 26|           shall be called the San of God." On this passage even they
299 26|         course, they say, the Son of God is God, and the power of
300 26|          they say, the Son of God is God, and the power of the highest
301 26|             not plainly to declare, "God shall come upon thee, and
302 26|             by saying "the Spirit of God" (although the Spirit of
303 26|               although the Spirit of God is God,) and by not directly
304 26|        although the Spirit of God is God,) and by not directly naming
305 26|           and by not directly naming God, he wished that portion
306 26|              the Son." The Spirit of God in this passage must be
307 26|              For just as the Word of God is not actually He whose
308 26|        Spirit (although He is called God) is not actually He whose
309 26|               And thus the Spirit is God, and the Word is God, because
310 26|              is God, and the Word is God, because proceeding from
311 26|              because proceeding from God, but yet is not actually
312 26|          proceeds. Now that which is God of God, although He is an
313 26|             Now that which is God of God, although He is an actually
314 26|              thing, yet He cannot be God Himself (exclusively), but
315 26|             exclusively), but so far God as He is of the same substance
316 26|             of the same substance as God Himself, and as being an
317 26|           same way as the wisdom (of God) and the providence (of
318 26|               and the providence (of God) is not God: these attributes
319 26|           providence (of God) is not God: these attributes are not
320 26|           are (I mean) the Spirit of God, and the Word and the Power
321 26|            born of her is the Son of God. This He Himself, in those
322 26|            Since Thou art the Son of God." This, accordingly, the
323 26|            Thou art, the Holy Son of God." His "Father" He Himself
324 26|             the "Christ (the Son) of God," He does not deny the relation.
325 26|           His help. He exclaims that God had forsaken Him. He commends
326 26|               not into a unipersonal God. And indeed it is not once
327 27|         Father to be spirit, that is God, that is Christ. Thus they,
328 27|        advanced, because the Word of God or the Spirit of God is
329 27|              of God or the Spirit of God is also called the power
330 27|           shall be called the Son of God." Therefore, (they argue,)
331 27|             flesh that is the Son of God. Nay, (I answer,) this is
332 27|             concerning the Spirit of God. For it was certainly of
333 27|               being interpreted, is, God with us." Besides, the flesh
334 27|            Besides, the flesh is not God, so that it could not have
335 27|           shall be called the Son of God," but only that Divine Being
336 27|              psalm also says, "Since God became man in the midst
337 27|          rest, we must needs believe God to be unchangeable, and
338 27|         which it previously was not. God, however, neither ceases
339 27|              what He is. The Word is God, and "the Word of the Lord
340 27|               cannot at this rate be God for He has ceased to be
341 27|          expressly set forth as both God and Man; the very psalm
342 27|     intimating (of the flesh), that "God became Man in the midst
343 27|           all respects as the Son of God and the Son of Man, being
344 27|            and the Son of Man, being God and Man, differing no doubt
345 27|             Word is nothing else but God, and the flesh nothing else
346 27|            declared to be the Son of God, according to the Spirit;"
347 27|            in which words He will be God, and the Word the Son of
348 27|              and the Word the Son of God. We see plainly the twofold
349 27|       conjoined in One Person Jesus, God and Man. Concerning Christ,
350 27|            the flesh; of the Spirit, God and the angel designated
351 27|        designated Him as "the Son of God," in respect of that nature,
352 27|            Him "the Mediator between God and Men,"" and so affirmed
353 27|             who interpret the Son of God to be flesh, be so good
354 27|          Spirit, on the ground that "God is a Spirit," just as if
355 27|              there is "the Spirit of God;" in the same manner as
356 27|           find that as "the Word was God," so also there is "the
357 27|           also there is "the Word of God."~
358 28|            that Jesus was the Son of God, and at the same time suppose
359 28|         ejaculation of the Church to God, "Of a truth, Lord, against
360 28|            that Jesus was the Son of God, and that being the Son,
361 28|           Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus,
362 28|           that "every one is born of God who believeth that Jesus
363 28|        manner, everywhere speaks of "God the Father, and our Lord
364 28|           Romans, he gives thanks to God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
365 28|             through Jesus Christ and God the Father." You possess
366 28|            effect, and set forth Two God the Father, and our Lord
367 28|         other designation the Son of God. For precisely by the same
368 28|              Person, even the Son of God, does either name alone
369 28|            name of Christ some other God is implied, if he ascribes
370 28|             Christ! For if Christ is God the Father, when He says, "
371 28|           and your Father, and to my God and your God," He of course
372 28|               and to my God and your God," He of course shows plainly
373 28|           another Father and another God. If, again, the Father is
374 28|             epistle prays, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ
375 28|             than Christ), who is the God of Jesus Christ, the bestower
376 29|              the Word and the Son of God. In short, since he says
377 29|           blasphemy against the Lord God, for we do not maintain
378 29|       conditions of His existence as God. Well, but how could the
379 29|               though not from Him as God. For even if a river be
380 29|            So likewise the Spirit of God, whatever suffering it might
381 29|            for me that the Spirit of God suffered nothing as the
382 29|             nothing as the Spirit of God, since all that It suffered
383 29|       ourselves unable to suffer for God, unless the Spirit of God
384 29|            God, unless the Spirit of God be in us, who also utters
385 30|            midst of His passion: "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken
386 30|             His passion: "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken
387 30|           who suffered, then to what God was it that He addressed
388 30|               that is to say, not of God; and it was uttered so as
389 30|           prove the impassibility of God, who "forsook" His Son,
390 30|         sitting at the right hand of God? where He will continue
391 30|      Declarer of the One Monarchy of God, but at the same time the
392 31|       substance so to believe in One God as to refuse to reckon the
393 31|               and as making One Only God? God was pleased to renew
394 31|              as making One Only God? God was pleased to renew His
395 31|            the Spirit, in order that God might now be known openly,"
396 31|          Jesus) Christ is the Son of God" (not the Father), "God
397 31|              God" (not the Father), "God dwelleth in him, and he
398 31|           dwelleth in him, and he in God. " We believe not the testimony
399 31|         believe not the testimony of God in which He testifies to