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  1 1 |           OF ALL BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER AND LORD OMNIPOTENT, THE
  2 1 |           things believe on God the Father and Lord n Omnipotent; that
  3 3 |           confer upon us, even as a father, a religious wisdom. And
  4 6 |      Jerusalem shall ye worship the Father;" and gave the reasons,
  5 7 |            Christ spoke thus of the Father, as wishing that something
  6 8 |     supplications it might now call Father instead of God. And His
  7 8 |             without the will of the Father; but even the very hairs
  8 9 |            US TO BELIEVE, AFTER THE FATHER, ALSO IN THE SON OF GOD,
  9 9 |            us to believe, after the Father, also on the Son of God,
 10 9 |            at the right hand of the Father: "The Lord said unto my
 11 10|             and to be impious to my Father? Or what shall I gain from
 12 11|          things were granted by His Father, by whom all things were
 13 11|          whom there is none but the Father, was only man, and denying
 14 11|            recoil also upon God the Father, if God the Father could
 15 11|          God the Father, if God the Father could not beget God the
 16 11|            as He goes as man to the Father, so as the Son in obedience
 17 11|             Son in obedience to the Father He shall descend thence.
 18 12|           says in the person of the Father: "I will not now save them
 19 12|           declared to be God by the Father according to the Scriptures?
 20 12|         Scriptures? Yea, if God the Father does not save except by
 21 12|             can be saved by God the Father unless he shall have confessed
 22 12|             in whom and by whom the Father promises that He will give
 23 12|          them declare Him to be the Father. For, being bound by the
 24 12|           Him to be God. As God the Father, or as God the Son ? If
 25 12|            of God is God? If as the Father, why do they not follow
 26 12|             is the Almighty God the Father, then God the Father comes
 27 12|            the Father, then God the Father comes from a place, from
 28 12|             be not the Son, but the Father; since by them He is asserted
 29 12|             is proved to be God the Father Almighty. But if in Bethlehem,
 30 12|            south is the Son, or the Father; for God is said to be about
 31 12|         that God shall come. If the Father, why do they shrink from
 32 12|             says that Christ is the Father? unless because, whether
 33 12|      because, whether they call Him Father or Son, from his heresy,
 34 12|      whether in wishing to call Him Father or in wishing to call Him
 35 13|            the only begotten of the Father, full Of grace and truth.".
 36 13|          this same thing, He says: "Father, glorify me with that glory
 37 13|          true of no man, "I and the Father are one," Christ alone declared
 38 14|            it that "what things the Father doeth, these also doeth
 39 14|             is it that "even as the Father hath life in Himself, so
 40 14|        after the example of God the Father, because he is not glorious
 41 14|             sent from heaven by the Father, He certainly is not man
 42 15|           which He says, "I and the Father are one?" For how can it
 43 15|           can it be that "I and the Father are one," if He is not both
 44 15|              ye say of Him whom the Father sanctified, and sent into
 45 15|             be understood to be the Father Himself. Thus He said that
 46 15|            many good works from the Father; whence He desired that
 47 15|             be understood to be the Father, but the Son. And in the
 48 15|         mention of the Son, not the Father, when He said, "Ye say,
 49 15|            Himself the Son, not the Father; but as pertaining to His
 50 15|     divinity, by saying, "I and the Father are one," He proved that
 51 15|           as to be the Son, not the Father.~
 52 16|          have linked Himself to the Father had He not wished to be
 53 16|       maintained His glory with the Father, He existed before the world,
 54 17|         that this Word was with the Father, and besides that the Word
 55 17|       everywhere introduces God the Father infinite and without end,
 56 17|           men at that time? God the Father? Then thus He is enclosed
 57 17|         Neither, therefore, did the Father descend, as the subject
 58 18|         CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD OF THE FATHER, WHOM NO MAN HATH SEEN AT
 59 18|      understood that it was not the Father who was seen, seeing that
 60 18|            even then to see God the Father in the image of God, that
 61 18|         able one day to see God the Father. For the things that are
 62 18|          day be able to see God the Father Himself also as He is, that
 63 18|           being able to see God the Father, whom it has always desired.
 64 18|       present passage. Was that the Father that was seen by Hagar or
 65 18|             from us to call God the Father an angel, lest He should
 66 18|      because He is subjected to the Father, and the Announcer of the
 67 18|            and the Announcer of the Father's will, He is declared to
 68 18|         suited to the person of the Father, lest He should be called
 69 18|             is the Announcer of the Father's mind. And the heretics
 70 18|            also that he should be a father, and learns that Sarah his
 71 18|          they will have it that the Father was seen at that time to
 72 18|          heretics have believed the Father to be visible. But if an
 73 18| invisibility may be restored to the Father, and the proper inferiority
 74 18|      hospitality which formerly the Father had put out to interest
 75 18|           touched. But although the Father, being invisible, was assuredly
 76 18|           is Christ. It was not the Father, then, who was a guest with
 77 18|          but Christ. Nor was it the Father who was seen then, but the
 78 18|             was begotten of God the Father before Abraham himself.
 79 18|        applicable or fitting to the Father, who is God only, but may
 80 18|         appears that it was not the Father who thus spoke to Hagar,
 81 18|           declares the bosom of the Father, as John sets forth. For
 82 18|         sets forth the bosom of the Father, as the Word, became flesh
 83 18|            declare the bosom of the Father, assuredly Christ is not
 84 18|           or we must reckon God the Father Almighty among the angels.~
 85 19|           of the injustice of their father, and when he told them that
 86 19|           not to be received as the Father, but as the Son, God and
 87 19|       cannot be received as God the Father; but as God and Angel, as
 88 19|          upon the lads, as if their father was Christ, and showing,
 89 20|              For," it is said, "the Father giveth not to the Son by
 90 20|             Son by measure, for the Father loveth the Son." In the
 91 21|   commandment I have received of my Father." Now who is it who says
 92 21|           He has received it of His Father? Or who says that He can
 93 21|            the Word who is from the Father, who is with the Father, "
 94 21|             Father, who is with the Father, "by whom all things were
 95 21|          made;" the imitator of His Father's works and powers, "the
 96 21|        rather to do the will of the Father," by whom He had been sent
 97 21|             Word proceeded from the Father before every creature? And
 98 22|             in the glory of God the Father?" "Who, although He was
 99 22|             the imitator of all His Father's works, in that He Himself
100 22|         Himself worketh even as His Father. He is--as we have declared--
101 22|    declared--in the form of God the Father. And He is reasonably affirmed
102 22|            after the example of the Father. Yet He obtained, this from
103 22|         obtained, this from His own Father, that He should be both
104 22|          God in the form of God the Father. He then, although He was
105 22|             He was God from God the Father, He never either compared
106 22|     associated Himself with God the Father, mindful that He was from
107 22|        mindful that He was from His Father, and that He possessed that
108 22|             that He is, because the Father had given it Him. Thence,
109 22|        yielded all obedience to the Father, and still yields it as
110 22|      equalling Himself with God the Father; but, on the other hand,
111 22|           that He received from the Father that name which is above
112 22|             of the glory of God the Father; consequently He is not
113 22|           He became obedient to the Father, even to death, yea, the
114 23|           THOUGHT HIM TO BE GOD THE FATHER, OTHERS THAT HE WAS ONLY
115 23|            not the Son, but God the Father Himself. And this, although
116 23|     pronounced not the Son, but the Father. Therefore let it be considered
117 23|            have thought Him God the Father Himself, and have confessed
118 23|          Him to be God, must be the Father. Moreover, other heretics
119 23|            have thought Him God the Father Himself; when reason and
120 26|       SABELLIANS HE PROVES THAT THE FATHER IS ONE, THE SON ANOTHER.~
121 26|         show that Christ is God the Father, in that He is asserted
122 26|          God, then say they, If the Father and Christ be one God, Christ
123 26|           Christ will be called the Father. Wherein they are proved
124 26|             second person after the Father, but the Father Himself.
125 26|           after the Father, but the Father Himself. And since these
126 26|             Son is second after the Father, when he reads that it was
127 26|             that it was said by the Father, consequently to the Son, "
128 26|            the passage: "I go to my Father, and your Father; to my
129 26|           go to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God?"
130 26|          witness of myself, and the Father who sent me beareth witness
131 26|       revealed this to thee, but my Father which is in heaven? Or when
132 26|           Himself it is expressed: "Father, glorify me with that glory
133 26|           it was said by the same: "Father, I knew that Thou hearest
134 26|           are delivered to me by my Father?" Or when the session at
135 26|            at the right hand of the Father is proved both by apostles
136 26|         shows Him to be born of the Father, by whom all things were
137 26|            has obeyed and obeys the Father; that He always has power
138 26|    delivered, as granted, as by the Father Himself permitted to Him.
139 26|          proof that this is not the Father, but the Son; as that He
140 26|           being obedient to God the Father, unless, if He be believed
141 26|            He be believed to be the Father, Christ may be said to be
142 26|        subjected to another God the Father?~
143 27|        where it is said, "I and the Father are one," in this also we
144 27|     heretics think, Christ were the Father, He ought to have said, "
145 27|            to have said, "I and the Father are one." But when He says
146 27|           afterwards introduces the Father by saying, "I and the Father,"
147 27|        Father by saying, "I and the Father," He severs and distinguishes
148 27|             might have said, "I the Father," if He had had it in mind
149 27|             that He Himself was the Father. And since He said "one"
150 27|            of His saying" I and the Father are," that they are two
151 27|           itself, as reasonably the Father and Son are one in agreement,
152 27|            and because He is of the Father, whatsoever He is, He is
153 27|       remaining, that He is not the Father who is the Son, because
154 27|           is not the Son who is the Father. For He would not have added "
155 27|          that He, the only and sole Father, had become the Son. In
156 27|             Say ye of Him, whom the Father sanctified, and sent into
157 27|             He said that He had the Father. He is therefore the Son,
158 27|          therefore the Son, not the Father: for He would have confessed
159 27|           confessed that He was the Father had He considered Himself
160 27|        considered Himself to be the Father; and He declares that He
161 27|            He was sanctified by His Father. In receiving, then, sanctification
162 27|             sanctification from the Father, He is inferior to the Father.
163 27|       Father, He is inferior to the Father. Now, consequently, He who
164 27|           He who is inferior to the Father, is not the Father, but
165 27|           to the Father, is not the Father, but the Son; for had He
166 27|            Son; for had He been the Father, He would have given, and
167 27|             sanctification from the Father, by the very fact of proving
168 27|         Himself to be less than the Father, by receiving from Him sanctification,
169 27|             is the Son, and not the Father. Besides, He says that He
170 27|             be proved to be not the Father, but the Son, who assuredly
171 27|           have sent had He been the Father; but being sent, He was
172 27|          being sent, He was not the Father, lest the Father should
173 27|            not the Father, lest the Father should be proved, in being
174 27|             Son of God, and not the Father, it is an instance of great
175 27|            that Christ Jesus is the Father, when it is observed that
176 27|       proved Himself to be, not the Father, but the Son.~
177 28|         hath seen me, hath seen the Father also." But let him learn
178 28|            said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." For
179 28|          learnt that Christ was the Father? although, on the other
180 28|            Son, not that He was the Father. For what the Lord said, "
181 28|          known me, ye have known my Father also: and henceforth ye
182 28|        understood Himself to be the Father, but implying that he who
183 28|            he thus believes, to the Father, and shall see Him. "For
184 28|           says He, "can come to the Father, but by me." And therefore
185 28|            not only come to God the Father, and shall know the Father
186 28|          Father, and shall know the Father Himself; but, moreover,
187 28|            only known, but seen the Father. For often the divine Scripture
188 28|          made known the mind of the Father, it is said, "And His name
189 28|          Him." Now He said that the Father should be seen by whomsoever
190 28|           Son Himself should be the Father seen, but that whosoever
191 28|            of being able to see the Father. For He also is the image
192 28|             is the image of God the Father; so that it is added, moreover,
193 28|          these things, that "as the Father worketh, so also the Son
194 28|           is an imitator of all the Father's works, so that every one
195 28|            it just as if he saw the Father, when he sees Him who always
196 28|       always imitates the invisible Father in all His works. But if
197 28|         works. But if Christ is the Father Himself, in what manner
198 28|           he do; because I go to my Father? And He further subjoins, "
199 28|    commandments; and I will ask the Father, and He will give you another
200 28|          shall keep my word: and my Father will love him; and we will
201 28|           that Holy Spirit whom the Father will send, He will teach
202 28|       rejoice because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater
203 28|            unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I." But
204 28|            am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every
205 28|         persists, and adds: "As the Father hath loved me, so also have
206 28|             even as I have kept the Father's commandments, and remain
207 28|            which I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
208 28|         attesting Him to be not the Father but the Son, the Lord would
209 28|              either that He was the Father, or wished Himself to be
210 28|             to be understood as the Father, except that He might declare
211 28|         seeing the image of God the Father through the Son, that it
212 28|             it was as if he saw the Father; since every one believing
213 28|            contemplation of God the Father Almighty. And since he who
214 28|           were, in some measure the Father whom he will see hereafter;
215 28|         Christ Himself had been the Father, why did He promise as future,
216 28|     contemplation and vision of the Father; therefore He had not given
217 28|             had given if He was the Father: for He was seen, and He
218 28|            then present was not the Father, seeing that He was seen,
219 28|           pure heart should see the Father. It was therefore not the
220 28|            It was therefore not the Father, but the Son, who promised
221 28|            that they should see the Father, if already they who were
222 28|           present saw Christ as the Father? But because He was the
223 28|             He was the Son, not the Father, rightly also He was then
224 28|           the image of God; and the Father, because He is invisible,
225 29|            FAITH ENJOINS, AFTER THE FATHER AND THE SON, To BELIEVE
226 29|           said He, "I will pray the Father, and He will give you another
227 29|         shall send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of truth who
228 29|        truth who proceedeth from my Father." And, "If I go not away,
229 30|            CALL CHRIST GOD, AND THE FATHER GOD, STILL SCRIPTURE DOES
230 30|              indeed, concerning the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
231 30|           Christ Himself is God the Father, as moreover they who would
232 30|             only, or really God the Father. And they were accustomed
233 30|            that Jesus Christ is the Father argue as follows:--If God
234 30|        Christ is God, Christ is the Father, since God is one. If Christ
235 30|           one. If Christ be not the Father, because Christ is God the
236 30|            other hand thus:--If the Father is one, and the Son another,
237 30|            the Son another, but the Father is God and Christ is God,
238 30|             at once introduced, the Father and the Son; and if God
239 30|            man, so that rightly the Father may be one God. Thus indeed
240 31|             OF GOD, BORN OF GOD THE FATHER FROM EVERLASTING, WHO WAS
241 31|  EVERLASTING, WHO WAS ALWAYS IN THE FATHER, IS THE SECOND PERSON TO
242 31|            THE SECOND PERSON TO THE FATHER, WHO DOES NOTHING WITHOUT
243 31|            DOES NOTHING WITHOUT HIS FATHER'S DECREE; AND THAT HE IS
244 31|          GREAT COUNSEL, TO WHOM THE FATHER'S GODHEAD IS GIVEN BY COMMUNITY
245 31|             SUBSTANCE.~Thus God the Father, the Founder and Creator
246 31|            known the secrets of the Father. He then, since He was begotten
247 31|        since He was begotten of the Father, is always in the Father.
248 31|            Father, is always in the Father. And I thus say always,
249 31|             have been always in the Father; for no time can be assigned
250 31|             And He is always in the Father, unless the Father be not
251 31|           in the Father, unless the Father be not always Father, only
252 31|            the Father be not always Father, only that the Father also
253 31|        always Father, only that the Father also precedes Him,--in a
254 31|           He should be before He is Father. Because it is essential
255 31|             of like nature with the Father in some measure by His nativity,
256 31|       beginning. He, then, when the Father willed it, proceeded from
257 31|       willed it, proceeded from the Father, and He who was in the Father
258 31|       Father, and He who was in the Father came forth from the Father;
259 31|          Father came forth from the Father; and He who was in the Father
260 31|       Father; and He who was in the Father because He was of the Father,
261 31|        Father because He was of the Father, was subsequently with the
262 31|           was subsequently with the Father, because He came forth from
263 31|      because He came forth from the Father,--that is to say, that divine
264 31|           all things, but after the Father, since all things were made
265 31|      causing a person second to the Father as being the Son, but not
266 31|             but not taking from the Father that characteristic that
267 31|            without beginning as the Father, and He Himself the beginning
268 31|             of all things as is the Father, this would have made two
269 31|           were not the Son, but the Father begetting from Himself another
270 31|    reasonably, as compared with the Father, and designated as great
271 31|            attributes belong to the Father, reasonably we say, He would
272 31|            unborn; but He is of the Father, because He is begotten,
273 31|          said before, than from the Father, owing His origin to His
274 31|             owing His origin to His Father, He could not make a disagreement
275 31|          Himself, but obeys all His Father's commands and precepts;
276 31|         minister of the will of His Father, of whom He is. Thus making
277 31|             Himself obedient to His Father in all things, although
278 31|            He shows the one God the Father by His obedience, from whom
279 31|           is unborn,--which God the Father only is, being beyond a
280 31|            this very purpose of the Father, that He might be Lord.
281 31|          but He was destined of the Father as an Angel to announce
282 31|            to Him as the Son by the Father, while He Himself, with
283 31|            Him, is subjected to His Father, He is indeed proved to
284 31|             proved to be Son of His Father; but He is found to be both
285 31|         that He has received to the Father, remits again to the Father
286 31|         Father, remits again to the Father the whole authority of His
287 31|      divinity. The true and eternal Father is manifested as the one
288 31|       communion of substance to the Father. God indeed is shown as
289 31|            still, nevertheless, the Father is proved to be one God;
290 31|           by the Son Himself to the Father, who had given them; so
291 31|             that reasonably God the Father is God of all, and the source
292 31|           all else, because God the Father put before all Him whom
293 31|         subjected to Him by His own Father, inasmuch as He is God;
294 31|          Him, found at one with His Father God, has, by abiding in
295 31|              briefly proved God His Father to be one and only and true