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A Sectional Confession of Faith

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Section 3

About this work

Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

III.

If, then, there are any here

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,

too

,

who

falsify

the

holy

faith

,

either

by

attributing

to

the

divinity

as

its

own

what

belongs

to

the

humanity

—

progressions

,

and

passions

,

and

a

glory

coming

with

accession

—

or

by

separating

from

the

divinity

the

progressive

and

passible

body

,

as

if

subsisted

of

itself

apart

,

—

these

persons

also

are

outside

the

confession

of

the

Church

and

of

salvation

.

No

one

,

therefore

,

can

know

God

unless

he

apprehends

the

Son

;

for

the

Son

is

the

wisdom

by

whose

instrumentality

all

things

have

been

created

;

and

these

created

objects

declare

this

wisdom

,

and

God

is

recognised

in

the

wisdom

.

But

the

wisdom

of

God

is

not

anything

similar

to

the

wisdom

which

man

possesses

,

but

it

is

the

perfect

wisdom

which

proceeds

from

the

perfect

God

,

and

abides

for

ever

,

not

like

the

thought

of

man

,

which

passes

from

him

in

the

word

that

is

spoken

and

(

straightway

)

ceases

to

be

.

Wherefore

it

is

not

wisdom

only

,

but

also

God

;

nor

is

it

Word

only

,

but

also

Son

.

And

whether

,

then

,

one

discerns

God

through

creation

,

or

is

taught

to

know

Him

by

the

Holy

Scriptures

,

it

is

impossible

either

to

apprehend

Him

or

to

learn

of

Him

apart

from

His

wisdom

.

And

he

who

calls

upon

God

rightly

,

calls

on

Him

through

the

Son

;

and

he

who

approaches

Him

in

a

true

fellowship

,

comes

to

Him

through

Christ

.

Moreover

,

the

Son

Himself

cannot

be

approached

apart

from

the

Spirit

.

For

the

Spirit

is

both

the

life

and

the

holy

formation

of

all

things

;

and

God

sending

forth

this

Spirit

through

the

Son

makes

the

creature

like

Himself

.

Notes

1
προκοπάς.
2
δόξαν τὴν ἐπιγινομένην.
3
μόρφωσις τῶν ὅλων.
4
τὴν κτίσιν.