XXVIII. There is one God, unbegotten, and without beginni^[ng;] having neither any one before him; for nothing can be before that which is unbegotten: nor with him; for the unbegotten God is One and Alone: nor in him; for he is a simple and uncompounded Being.  But as he is One and Alone, and always the same, he is the God ^[51] and the Creator, and the Maker of all things; principally, and in a peculiar manner of the only-begotten; yet properly of those things also which were made by him.  For he begat, and created, and made the Son alone before all things, and before the whole Creation, by his Power, and Energy, not communicating any thing of his own Substance to him that was begotten; for God is incorruptible, and inseparable, and indivisible: and an incorruptible Being does not communicate his own Substance; nor does he produce another which subsists in him; for he alone is unbegotten.  Now 'tis impossible that a Being should be begotten which has its Substance unbegotten.  He did not therefore make use of his Substance, but of his Will only; and he begat him, not by his own Substance, but as he pleased.  And by him did God make the Holy Spirit, the first and greatest of all the rest, by his own Authority ^[52] and Command; but by the Energy and Power of the Son.  And after him he made by his Son all the other Creatures which are in Heaven, and which are on Earth, both visible and invisible, both corporeal and incorporeal.  For there is one God, from whom are all things; according to the Apostle: And one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.  There is therefore one unbegotten God, uncreated, not made; and one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, a Being begotten of him that is unbegotten; tho not like other beings that are begotten: a Being created by him that is uncreated; tho not like other created Beings; a Being made by him that was not made; tho not like other beings that were made: as it is said in the Holy Scriptures, The Lord created me the beginning of his ways, for his works; he founded me before the world began; and before all the Hills did he beget me.  And one Holy Spirit, the first and greatest of all the Works of the only-begotten, made indeed by the Command of the Father, but by the Energy and Power of the Son.