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Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome

Dionysius of Alexandria

Section 11

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Author: Dionysius of Alexandria

11. That neither must this saying be thus

‹ Section 10 Part 6 · Introduction ›

blamed

;

for

he

says

that

he

used

the

name

of

Maker

on

account

of

the

flesh

which

the

Word

had

assumed

,

and

which

certainly

was

made

.

But

if

any

one

should

suspect

that

that

had

been

said

of

the

Word

,

even

this

also

was

to

be

heard

without

contentiousness

.

For

as

I

do

not

think

that

the

Word

was

a

thing

made

,

so

I

do

not

say

that

God

was

its

Maker

,

but

its

Father

.

Yet

still

,

if

at

any

time

,

discoursing

of

the

Son

,

I

may

have

casually

said

that

God

was

His

Maker

,

even

this

mode

of

speaking

would

not

be

without

defence

.

For

the

wise

men

among

the

Greeks

call

themselves

the

makers

of

their

books

,

although

the

same

are

fathers

of

their

books

.

Moreover

,

divine

Scripture

calls

us

makers

of

those

motions

which

proceed

from

the

heart

,

when

it

calls

us

doers

of

the

law

of

judgment

and

of

justice

.

Notes

4
Athanasius adds (ut supra, 4. 21), that Dionysius gave various replies to those that blamed him for saying that God is the Maker of Christ, whereby he cleared himself.