A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
Novatian of Rome
Chapter 31
About this work
A Latin exposition of the rule of faith treating God the Father, Christ’s divinity and humanity, and the Holy Spirit while arguing against several rival theological positions.
- Author
- Novatian of Rome
- Traditional attribution
- Tertullian or Cyprian (in earlier transmission)
- Date
- c. AD 240–250
- Origin
- Rome
- Genre
- Theological Treatise
Chapter XXXI. Argument.—But that God, the Son of God, Born of God the Father from Everlasting, Who Was Always in the Father, is the Second Person to the Father, Who Does Nothing Without His Father’s Decree; And that He is Lord, and the Angel of God’s Great Counsel, to Whom the Father’s Godhead is Given by Community of Substance.
Thus God the Father, the