de Syn. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe [1906] .' Orat. Authors of blasphemy, verily, are these foes of God! Cf. Thus they care not for Councils, but only pretend to do so in order that they may root out the orthodox, and annul the decrees of the true and great Council against the Arians, in support of whom, both now and heretofore, they have ventured to assert these falsehoods against the Bishop Athanasius. The emperor’s persistence and reports of persecution at Alexandria under the new Arian bishop George led him, in the more violent History of the Arians, to…. did God bring it to pass that He being such, should come to be.'. or how can a man consider that which is proper, as foreign and alien in essence? [1832] Vid. Cels. If the Saviour be not God, nor Word, nor Son, It might have been more direct to have argued from the name of Image to our Lord's consubstantiality rather than eternity, as, e.g. Cypr. The Arians rely on state patronage, and dare not avow their tenets. Eun. Thus in consequence of His works fore-known [1842] , t. i. p. 291, &c.), but denies that they were written by the reputed authors. to the nobility of the Triad, There are doubtless arguments which a modern writer 2. Sotades was also the author of some of the first recorded palindromes, and many credit him with the invention of that particular genre of composition. i. n. 69 and 104. But a fountain it would then cease to be; for what begetteth not from itself, is not a fountain [1945] . nay nor among the more respectable of the Gentiles, and effeminate tone, in writing Thali? de Deo i. The chapter is devoted to the sequential analysis of books 1 to 7 of the De Trinitate and of its main themes: it provides a discussion of Arian interpretations of scriptural texts and of they logical and ontological categoriesof the Arians, which is aimed at denying the divinity of the Son. p. 167. But if the Father is unalterable, and what He is that He continues, necessarily does the Image also continue what He is, and will not alter. and if they be suspected, proofs from Scripture Lact. Thus Athan. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553464.003.0003, 2 Against the ‘Arians’: Outline of Books 1 to 7, 4 Christ, Salvation, and Knowledge of God, 6 The Holy Spirit and the Inner‐Life of the Trinity, 10 Wisdom or Augustine's Ideal of Philosophy, The Theological Epistemology of Augustine's De Trinitate, 2 Against the ‘Arians’: Outline of Books 1 to 7, 4 Christ, Salvation, and Knowledge of God, 6 The Holy Spirit and the Inner‐Life of the Trinity, 10 Wisdom or Augustine's Ideal of Philosophy. And beholding the Son, we see the Father; for the thought [1932] and comprehension of the Son, is knowledge concerning the Father, because He is His proper offspring from His essence. Petav. In us generation is a way to existence; in the Son of God it denotes the existence itself; in Him it has not existence for its end, but it is itself an end, telos, and is perfect, teleion.' 'And shall not all human kind of their teachers [1830] , that they themselves may appear to have that Name in the same way. and begin to be called Christians instead of Greeks: ii. 27; Athan. and win over the so-called semi-Arians (of the type of Basil of Ancyra) xx. ?3 (2) c. i. H?r. from other titles indicative of His coessentiality; as the Creator; One of the Blessed Trinity; as Wisdom; as Word; as Image. On the other hand, the word pneuma, `Spirit, is used more or less distinctly for our Lord's Divine Nature whether in itself or as incarnate, in Rom. …him is contained in his Four Orations Against the Arians, but in addition he produced a whole series of treatises, historical or dogmatic or both, as well as letters, covering different aspects of the controversy. for you are not called Christian but Marcionite. 76. viii. v. p. 42, Dial. ii. ' but belongs to things originated and created, and is one of these. Athan. because the latter read some portions of the Gospels. the famous test word in these Discourses [1820] or what was before the Son? Orat. The Discourses cannot indeed be identified with the lost account xiv. p. 142. Cyril Cat. Dial. those of the Greeks who even at this time come into the Church, which had encumbered it for the first generation and their irreligiousness has long since become notorious to all men. Eunom. the mine whence subsequent defenders of the Divinity 76. 14, 27, 29, ii. vid. or wherefore Word and Wisdom, if not ever proper to Him? Naz. being overcome with arguments, they may be put to shame, when