That the Son according to divinity has always been immortal, or is, the divine writings testify everywhere. Solomon affirming the same more clearly: Immortality is in thought wisdom, and the delight of its friendship is good (Wis. 8:17). Likewise there: In the works of the hands of wisdom is honor without failing, and in the contest of his words…

(Vigil. Cont. Fel. 12. ap. Aug. t. 8. p. 45.) But not one was the Son of God, and another the son of a man; but the same Christ was the Son of both God and man. And as in one man, the soul is one and the body is another, so in the mediator between God and man, the Son of God was one, and the son of man another; yet of both together was one Christ the…

Of the Holy Spirit, as above: For in wisdom there is the spirit of understanding, holy, unique (Wis. 7:22), and below, all-powerful (Ibid., 23) … For that God is Spirit the Son taught in the Gospel, saying: God is Spirit (Jn. 4:24). But that He is all-powerful is shown in Solomon (Wis. 7:23), when it is intimated that the Spirit is all-powerful and…

Who can hide or flee before the unique divinity of the Trinity? To the Trinity, the entire globe of the earth seems as a raindrop, or a bit of foam or a drop of morning dew that descends from heaven. As it is written, "He sits above the vault of the earth, from where its inhabitants seem like grasshoppers." And, "He has measured the waters in the hollow…

And if they were to repeat what the Son said? "Those who know you, the one true God, and the one whom you have sent, Jesus Christ." Response: That the Son is true, just as the Father is, we demonstrate with the words of the prophets and the Gospels, since Isaiah says, "But my servants will be called by another name, which will be blessed on the earth, and…

We prove that the Son is true, as the Father is, by the words of the prophets and the Gospels, Isaiah saying: To those serving me there shall be called a new name, which shall be blessed upon the earth; and they shall bless the true God, and those who swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God (Isa. 65:15). And in Solomon: Those whom they think to…

The apostle Paul, writing to the Hebrews about the Son, says, "Because he is the image of the invisible God and bears the seal of his being." And also Jeremiah, the wisest of the prophets, speaks of the person of God the Father and says, "If they had remained in my being and listened to my word, I would have turned them from their wicked desires." To make…

On the common omnipotence of the Trinity. Omnipotent Father, omnipotent Son, omnipotent Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). Concerning the Father in Solomon: your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal thrones, came (Wis. 18:15).

(Vigil. Cont. Fel. 12. ap. Aug. t. 8. p. 45.) But not one was the Son of God, and another the son of a man; but the same Christ was the Son of both God and man. And as in one man, the soul is one and the body is another, so in the mediator between God and man, the Son of God was one, and the son of man another; yet of both together was one Christ the…

(Vigil. Tapsens. [Athan. Ed. Ben. vol. ii. p. 646.]) The Apostle John, seeing long before by the Holy Spirit this man's madness, rouses him from his deep sleep of error by the preaching of his voice, saying, In the beginning was the Word. (John 1:1.) He therefore, who in the beginning was with God, could not in this last time take the beginning of His…

Question: If you would say that the Son made what was made by command of the Father. Response: It is not as you claim, that the Son made what was made under the Father's orders. Rather, by his will he created everything that he deemed in his providence should be created, since the prophet Isaiah says, "Thus says the Lord, 'I made the earth by my word, and…

But in order to teach that the Holy Spirit is spread everywhere, we shall examine the testimony of David, from whose prophecy the Holy Spirit is taught to be diffused not by places, as you, held fast by a heavy sleep, suppose, but by His power, like the Father and the Son, everywhere. For he himself sings and says in Psalm (138:7): Where shall I go from…