88. Holy brethren, I understand by o0moou/sion God of God, not of an essence that is unlike, not divided but born, and that the Son has a birth which is unique, of the substance of the unborn God, that He is begotten yet co-eternal and wholly like the Father. I believed this before I knew the word o0moou/sion but it greatly helped my belief. Why do you condemn my faith when I express it by o0moou/sion while you cannot disapprove it when expressed by o0moiou/sion? For you condemn my faith, or rather your own, when you condemn its verbal equivalent. Do others misunderstand it? Let us join in condemning the misunderstanding, but not deprive our faith of its security. Do you think we must subscribe to the Samosatene Council to prevent any one from using o0moou/sion in the sense of Paul of Samosata? Then let us also subscribe to the Council of Nicaea, so that the Arians may not impugn the word. Have we to fear that o0moiou/sion does not imply the same belief as o0moou/sion? Let us decree that there is no difference between being of one or of a similar substance. The word o0moou/sion can be understood in a wrong sense Let us prove that it can be understood in a very good sense. We hold one and the same sacred truth. I beseech you that we should agree that this truth, which is one and the same, should be regarded as sacred. Forgive me, brethren, as I have so often asked you to do. You are not Arians: why should you be thought to be Arians by denying the o0moou/sion?