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A Sectional Confession of Faith

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Section 4

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Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

IV.

One therefore is God the Father, one

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the

Word

,

one

the

Spirit

,

the

life

,

the

sanctification

of

all

.

And

neither

is

there

another

God

as

Father

,

nor

is

there

another

Son

as

Word

of

God

,

nor

is

there

another

Spirit

as

quickening

and

sanctifying

.

Further

,

although

the

saints

are

called

both

gods

,

and

sons

,

and

spirits

,

they

are

neither

filled

with

the

Spirit

,

nor

are

made

like

the

Son

and

God

.

And

if

,

then

,

any

one

makes

this

affirmation

,

that

the

Son

is

God

,

simply

as

being

Himself

filled

with

divinity

,

and

not

as

being

generated

of

divinity

,

he

has

belied

the

Word

,

he

has

belied

the

Wisdom

,

he

has

lost

the

knowledge

of

God

;

he

has

fallen

away

into

the

worship

of

the

creature

,

he

has

taken

up

the

impiety

of

the

Greeks

,

to

that

he

has

gone

back

;

and

he

has

become

a

follower

of

the

unbelief

of

the

Jews

,

who

,

supposing

the

Word

of

God

to

be

but

a

human

son

,

have

refused

to

accept

Him

as

God

,

and

have

declined

to

acknowledge

Him

as

the

Son

of

God

.

But

it

is

impious

to

think

of

the

Word

of

God

as

merely

human

,

and

to

think

of

the

works

which

are

done

by

Him

as

abiding

,

while

He

abides

not

Himself

.

And

if

any

one

says

that

the

Christ

works

all

things

only

as

commanded

by

the

Word

,

he

will

both

make

the

Word

of

God

idle

,

and

will

change

the

Lord’s

order

into

servitude

.

For

the

slave

is

one

altogether

under

command

,

and

the

created

is

not

competent

to

create

;

for

to

suppose

that

what

is

itself

created

may

in

like

manner

create

other

things

,

would

imply

that

it

has

ceased

to

be

like

the

creature

.

Notes

1
οὔτε Θεὸς ἕτερος ὡς Πατήρ.
2
ἀργόν.
3
This seems the idea in the sentence, οὐ γὰρ ἐξισωσθήσεται τῷ κτίσματι αὐτὸ κατ᾽ οὐδένα τρόπον, ἵν᾽ ὡς ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνου ἔκτισται, οὕτω καὶ αὐτὸ κτίσῃ τὰ ἄλλαα.