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as putiing you in mind, because of the grace that is given tome os God, that I should bo tho minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospei os God, stat the offering up of the Gentiles might be accepi te, boing sanctified by the Holy Ghost. I have theresore Whereoi I may glory throughJesus Christ in those things whicli pertain to God. For Idam not to speah of any of thoso things whicli Christ hathnoi Wrought by me, to maho tho Gentiles obedient, by Wordand deed, through mighty sigiis and Wondera, by the poWer of the Holy Spirit. M And again: NoW I beseech you,
man knoweth the things os a man, sme the spirit os man
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XIII. Seost thou that ait through Scripture tho Spirit is
preached, and yet no here named a creature ' And what can the implous have to say it tho Lord sends sorth His di cipies in baptigo in tho name of tho Father, and of the Son, and of tho Holy Spirit ly Without contradiction, that impii a communion and uni tWeen them, according to Whichthere are notther three divinities nor three) lotashim; but, While thero remain truly and certainly the three persons, the real uni of tho three must be achnowledged. Αnd in this Way proper credit mill bo given to the aenians and thebring sent' in the Godhead , according to which tho Fasterhath sent forth tho Son, and the Son in like manner senti forth the Spirit. For one of the persona surely could not be said to) send Himself; and ono could not speis of tho
Father as incarnate. For tho articles of our faith mill notconcur mitti the vicions tenets of the heresies; and it is rightthat our conceptions should fosso. tho inspired and apostoliedoctrines, and not that our impotent sancies ahould coercotho articles of our divino saith. XIV. But is thoy say, How can there bo three Person and hoW but ono Divini l-wo shali maho thia reply: That them aro indoed thres persons, in much as there isone person os God tho Father, and one of tho Lord tho
Son, and one of the Holy Spirit; and yet that thero is butone divini , in much as the Mn is the Imago of God tho Father, Who is one,-that is, ΗΟ is God os God; and inliso manner the Spirit is called the Spirit os God, and that,too, os nature according to the very substanco φυσικως κατ' αὐτην την ουσίαν , and not according to simple participationos God. And there is ono substance μισία) in the Trinitri hich does not subsist also in the case of objecta stat are
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mado; for thero is not one substance in God and in tho thingsinat are made, Minum none of these is in substance God. Nor, inde , is tho Lord ono of these according to substance, but
fhip Him .ho mas mado man on account of our salvation,
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ἴσω γενομενον τῶ σώματι), but as the Lord who lias talion to Himself the form os tho servant. Ne achnowledge thepassion os the Lord in tho flesli, the resurrection in thepo er of His divinity, the ascension to heaven, and His glorious appearing When Ho comes for the judgment of tholiving and the dead, and for the eternal lise of the sainis. XVI. And sines some have oven us troubie by attemptingio subvert our faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ, and by affirmingos Him that He was not God incarnaled, but a man linhedwith God; sor this reason me present our consession on the subject of the asor montioned matters os salth, and rejectilio faithless dogmas opposed thereio. For God, haring been incarnaled in the flesti os man, retains also His proper energypure, possessing a mind un subjected by the natural ψυχικων)and fleshly affections, and holding tho flesti and tho fleshlymotions divinely and sinlessty, and not only unm tered by the pomer os death, but even destroying death. And it istho truo God unincarnato that has appeared incarnate, the perfeci one With tho genuine and divine perfection ; and in Him there are not two persons. Nor do wo affirm that themare four to morship, viz. God and the Son os God, and manand the Holy Spirit. Wherosore Wo also anathematige thosΘwho fhon their impiety in this, and who thus give the mana place in the divino doxolon. For Wo holit that tho Wordos God was made man on account of our salvation, in orderthat wo might receive the likeness of the heavenly, and bomade divine θεοποιηθωμεν) after the likeness of Him Whois tho truo Son os God by nature, and the Son os man accord-
ing to the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ. XVII. Wo bolisvo theresore in ono God, that is, in ono Firet Causo, tho God of tho laW and of the gospei, the justand good; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, true God, that is, Image of the true God, Maher os ali things seen and unseen, Son os God and only-begotten Oftspring, and Eternat Word, living and self-subsistent and active ἐνεργον), HWays beingvith tho Father; and in one Holy Spirit; and in the glo-
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flesti, and indured sufferings and death in Our stead, and came to resurrection on tho third day, and was taen up to heaven; and in His glorious appearing yet to come; and inone holy Aureli, the sorovenem os sius, the resurrection oftho flesh, and liso eternat. XVm. achnowledge stat tho Son and the Spirit ars consubstantiat with the Father, and that the substance of the Trinity is one, fiat is, that there is one divinity accord- ing to nature, the Father remaining unbegotien, and the SonMing bemtten os tho Father in a truo generation, and not in
a formation by Will ποιήσει ἐκ βουλήσεως , and tho Spirit
ing sent sortii eternalty from the substanco of the Father throuo the Son, With power in sanctisy the whole creation. And wo further achnowledgo that tho Word was madossesh, and was manifested in the flesh-movement κινήσει received os a virgin, and did not simply energige in a man. And those Who have sellowship with men that rejeci thoeministantiali* as a doctrine foretgn to the Scriptures, and speis of any of the persona in tho Trinity as created, and separate stat person from the ono natural divini , we holdas aliens, and have selloWship With nono such. There is oneGod the Father, and there is only one divini . But the Sonalso is God, as boing the true image of the ono and onlydivini , according to generation and the naturo whicli Hohas fram the Father. Thero is ono Lord the Son; but in like mannis thera is tho Spirit, Who bears over διαπέμπων the Son's lordship to the creaturo that is sanctified. The n wjoumed in the worid, having of tho Virgin received
destroyed deain throno tho resurrection that had in vie. the resurrection os us est; and He ascended to heaven, exalt-ing and glorisying men in Himseis; and He comes tho seconditae to bring us again eternal lise. XIX. Ono is tho Son, both besoro sto incarnation and
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Word is not one person, and the man Jesus mother person, but the samo Who subsisted as Son besore Was made one With
flesti by Misy, so constituting Himseli a perfeci, and hianand sinless man, and using that oeconomical position for thorenowal of mankind and the salvation os ali the worid. God the Father, being Ηimself the periret Person, has thus thoperiect Word begotten of Ηim truly, not M a Word that iaspolien, nor Fet again as a son by adoption, in the senso in whicli angeis and men are called sons of God, but M a Sonwho is in nature God. And there is also the persect Holy
Spirit supplied χορ νούμενον) of God throuo the Son to thasons os adoption, living and lite-giving, holy and imparting
out either separation or alienation, is tauot us is Paul, Whosus in his Second Epistis to tho Corinthians: μ Tho graco ofour Lord Jesus Christ, and tho love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, bo mith you all. And again, in that epistio he mahos this explanation: No. Ho .hichst lishoth us With you in Christ, and hath anoinred ua, is God, who hath also sealed us, and oven the earnest of the Spirit in Our hearis.' And stili more clearly he writes in in the fame epistio: μ When Moses is read, tho veil is Montheir heart. Nevertholosa when it shali turn to the Lord, the
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o aiavea af the ministers of God, in much patience, in assii sons, in necessities, ' and so forth. Then ho adds these
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the
Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. No. there are diversities of infra, but the fame Spirit. And there ara differences of a ministrations, but tho fame Lord. And there are diversities os operationa, but it is tho fame God which worhoth ali in all. But tho manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyman to profit milhal. For in ono is oven by the Spirit tho
3 2 Cor. Vi. 4. 1 Cor. vi. 11. . 1 Cor. X. 4.
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96 GREGORY THAUMATURGUS Word of Wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the samo Spirit; to another salth by the fame Spirit; toanother the gists of healing by the fame Spirit; to another
the worhing os miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spiriis; in another divers hinds of langues; toanother tho interpretation os longues: but est these Wor ththat one and tho selffame Spirit, dividing to every manseveralty as He Will. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and ali the members of that one body, Ming mannare one body; so also is Christ. For is one Spirit are Woali baptigod into ono body. And again he says: Foris he who comes preaches another Christ whom Wo have notpreached, or Fe receive another spirit that yo have received not, or another gospei Which ye have not obtained, ye Will
XXIII. Soest thou that tho Spirit is inseparabie Domino divinityi And no one With plous apprehensions could an that He is a creature. Moreover, in the Episue to tho Hebrows he writes again thus: μ HOW shali ve escam, is me neglect so great salvation ; Whicli at the sint began to bEspohen by the Lord, and was confirmed unio us by them thathoard Him ; God also bearing them Witness, both mitti signfand won dors, and with divers miracles, and gitis of the HolyGhost And again ho says in the samo epistior Wher
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God, just as it has been represented in the before-mentione dsvings. Wherefore tho holy Trinity is bellovod lo bo ono God, in accordance With these testimontes of holy Scripture; alboit ali through tho inspired Scriptures numberless an- nouncementa ars supplied us, ali confirmato of the apostolicand ecclesiastical faith.
From ino book against the Monophysites by Leontius of Jerusalem, in Hai, Script. Vet. Vol. Vii. p. 147.
Fram Gregory Thaumaturgus, as they say, in his SeetionalConfession of Faith. To maintain tWo natures φυσεις) in the ono Christ, mahes a Tetrad of the Trinity, says he; for lio expressed himselfthus: V And it is tho trus God, the unincarnate, that Wasmanifested in tho flesti, perfect with the trus and divino
fhipping Dur persons), Vig. God, and the Son os God, and man, and the Holy Spirit.'' First, ho ever, this passage ismisapprehended, and is os very doubiful import. Neverthe-lom it Mars that wo fhould not speak of two persons in Christ, test, is thus achno ledging Him as God, and as in the perfeci divinity, and yet speahing of tWο persons, Weshould malis a Tetrad of the divino persons, counting thatos God tho Father as Ons, and that of tho Son os God asone, and that of the man as Ons, and that of tho Holy Spiritas one. But, again, it bears also against recognising two divino natures φύσεις , and rather for achnowledging Himto M perfeci God in one natural divine persection, and notin two; for his object is to fhoW that He became incarnate Without change, and that He retains tho divini without