Against the Arians, Discourse IV

Discourse IV

• Against the Arians IV.1 — §§1–5. The substantiality of the Word proved from Scripture. If the One Origin be substantial, Its Word is substantial. Unless the Word and Son be a second Origin, or a work, or an attribute (and so God be…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.2 — §§6, 7. When the Word and Son hungered, wept, and was wearied, He acted as our Mediator, taking on Him what was ours, that He might impart to us what was His. 6. But in answer to the weak and human notion of the…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.3 — Arians date the Son's beginning earlier than Marcellus, &c. 8. Eusebius and his fellows, that is, the Ario-maniacs, ascribing a beginning of being to the Son, yet pretend not to wish Him to have a beginning of…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.4 — §§9, 10. Unless Father and Son are two in name only, or as parts and so each imperfect, or two gods, they are coessential, one in Godhead, and the Son from the Father. 9. ‘I and the Father are One.’ You say that the…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.5 — §§11, 12. Marcellus and his disciples, like Arians, say that the Word was, not indeed created, but issued, to create us, as if the Divine silence were a state of inaction, and when God spake by the Word, He acted; or…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.6 — §§13, 14. Such a doctrine precludes all real distinctions of personality in the Divine Nature. Illustration of the Scripture doctrine from 2 Cor. vi. 11, &c. 13. This perhaps he borrowed from the Stoics, who maintain…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.7 — §§15–24. Since the Word is from God, He must be Son. Since the Son is from everlasting, He must be the Word; else either He is superior to the Word, or the Word is the Father. Texts of the New Testament which state…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.8 — Marcellian illustration from 1 Cor. xii. 4, refuted. 25. Arius then raves in saying that the Son is from nothing, and that once He was not, while Sabellius also raves in saying that the Father is Son, and again, the…vatican.va
• Against the Arians IV.9 — §§26–36. That the Son is the Co-existing Word, argued from the New Testament. Texts from the Old Testament continued; especially Ps. cx. 3. Besides, the Word in Old Testament may be Son in New, as Spirit in Old…vatican.va