Equality of the Son and Spirit with the Father
They said at his birth: 'Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth.'
A summary concerning worship. We have seen, therefore, him being glorified, we have seen him also being worshipped. Both are fitting and owed to God, not to a creature, just as the submissive saints write. David in Psalm 44 says: 'Come, let us worship and bow down to him, and let us weep before the Lord who made us, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.' And in Psalm 72: 'All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before him, for the kingdom belongs to the Lord and he himself is ruler of the nations.' What then will those say who assign the name 'God' separately to the Father, and 'Lord' to the Son, while they include here the Lord to be worshipped and to rule and his being the kingdom? And again in Psalm 29: 'And I will worship you, Lord, my strength.' And in Psalm 132: 'Let us worship toward the place where his feet stood.' Paul writes from the song of Deuteronomy: 'When he brings the firstborn into the inhabited world, he says: and let all the angels of God worship him.' And the evangelist says, 'the magi said: we saw his star in the east and we came to worship him.' And again, 'behold,' he says, 'a leper came and worshipped him.' And again according to Matthew he says: 'the wind ceased. And they in the ship worshipped him, saying: truly you are the Son of God,' and not, he says, those called sons by a cheap gift among us. And: 'a certain ruler worshipped him.' And after his resurrection on the mountain he says: 'the apostles, having seen him, worshipped him.'
A summary concerning faith toward God the Father. Therefore, according to the Scripture, saying much more or about the Father, it says much about the Son, declaring him almighty, and creator of the ages, and creator of all things, and true God, and not having a God before him, and over all, and a great and above all God, to whom no other will be reckoned, and sitting at the right hand...
Being in the bosom of the Father, and being the eternal life, the true light, Lord of all, only Sovereign and Authority, whose peace has no limit but exceeds all understanding, whose kingdom is unending, who alone is salvation, and who draws the worthy toward the Son; the Father is not considered in any way inferior—may it never be—to His Spirit.
One who theologizes about the Father in such an equal manner ought not to consider the Only-begotten or the Holy Spirit as lesser or unlike. For no creature has the power—only the Uncreated—to do the things mentioned: to create essence out of non-existence, both irrational and rational, to give life, to forgive sins, to call creation His own, to know the Father from equal things as He is known by Him, to be equal to the Father, to be in the Father and the Father in Him by equality, to be ministered to by angels, and for the Only-begotten to be testified as even surpassing these: God, Light from Light, Eternal Life, Truth, and Savior, being everywhere present and all things being established in Him, and for Him to possess the kingdom of heaven and divine peace, to grant it unshakeably to all, and to provide security in the continuous salvation to those who call upon Him.
For those who call the true Son of God and the Holy and life-giving Spirit 'creature' and 'not without a ruler' do not believe in these Hypostases, even if they say they believe; perhaps they do not even believe in the Father. For they transgress the command of the commanding Father: 'Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I testify to you, if you listen to me: there shall not be among you a strange god, nor shall you worship a god other than the true one' (Deuteronomy 6:4, 14) instead of the truth that there is never a non-existent or heterousian one; and 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve' (Deuteronomy 6:13); and 'There shall not be to you other gods besides me' (Exodus 20:3); and 'Cursed is everyone who puts his hope in man' (Jeremiah 17:5), that is, in a work of art. This is what the Son says in Matthew: 'No one can serve two masters' (Matthew 6:24), that is, two natures or two lordships; and in Paul to the Romans...
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ἔλεγον τεχθέντος αὐτοῦ· «δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰρήνη». 38 33.ν Περὶ προσκυνήσεως ἀνακεφαλαίωσις. 33.1 Εἴδομεν τοίνυν αὐτὸν δοξαζόμενον, εἴδομεν αὐτὸν καὶ προσκυνούμενον. 33.2 ἀμφότερα δὲ θεῷ ἐστιν πρέποντα καὶ ὀφειλόμενα, οὐχὶ δὲ κτίσματι, καθὰ γράφουσιν οἱ ὑποτεταγμένοι ἅγιοι· 33.3 ∆αυῒδ ἐν ϟδʹ ψαλμῷ· «δεῦτε προσκυνήσωμεν καὶ προσπέσωμεν αὐτῷ καὶ κλαύσωμεν ἐναντίον κυρίου τοῦ ποιήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ὅτι αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἡμεῖς λαὸς νομῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ πρόβατα χειρὸς αὐτοῦ» 33.4 καὶ ἐν καʹ· «μνησθήσονται καὶ ἐπιστραφήσονται πρὸς κύριον πάντα τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ πᾶσαι αἱ πατριαὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὅτι τοῦ κυρίου ἡ βασιλεία καὶ αὐτὸς δεσπόζει τῶν ἐθνῶν». 33.5 τί ἐροῦσιν ἄρα οἱ ἀπονέμοντες ὄνομα κεχωρισμένως τῷ μὲν πατρὶ τό «θεός», τῷ δὲ υἱῷ τό «κύριος», ἐπαΐοντες ἐνθάδε τὸν κύριον προσκυνεῖσθαι καὶ δεσπόζειν καὶ αὐτοῦ εἶναι τὴν βασιλείαν; 33.6 Καὶ πάλιν ἐν θʹ ψαλμῷ· «καὶ προσκυνήσω σε, κύριε, ἡ ἰσχύς μου»· 33.7 καὶ ἐν ρλαʹ· «προσκυνήσωμεν εἰς τὸν τόπον, οὗ ἔστησαν οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ»· 33.8 Παῦλος ἐκ τῆς ᾠδῆς τοῦ ∆ευτερονομίου γράφων· «ὅταν δὲ εἰσαγάγῃ τὸν πρωτότοκον εἰς τὴν οἰκουμένην, λέγει· καὶ προσκυ νησάτωσαν αὐτῷ πάντες ἄγγελοι θεοῦ»· 33.9 καὶ ὁ εὐαγγελιστής «εἶπον», φησίν, «οἱ μάγοι· εἴδομεν αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀστέρα ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ καὶ ἤλθο μεν προσκυνῆσαι αὐτῷ»· 33.10 καὶ πάλιν «ἰδού», φησίν, «λεπρὸς ἦλθεν καὶ προσεκύνει αὐτῷ»· 33.11 καὶ πάλιν παρὰ Ματθαίῳ φησίν· «ἐκόπασεν ὁ ἄνεμος. οἱ δὲ ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες· ἀλη θῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς εἶ», καὶ οὐ καθ' ἡμᾶς, φησίν, τοὺς ἀφθόνῳ δωρεᾷ ἐπικληθέντας υἱούς. 33.12 Καί· «ἄρχων τις προσεκύνει αὐτῷ». 33.13 καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ὄρει φησίν· «οἱ ἀπόστολοι ἰδόντες αὐτὸν προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ». 34.ν Περὶ τῆς πρὸς τὸν θεὸν πατέρα πίστεως. 34.1 Καθὰ τοίνυν τῆς γραφῆς μείζονα ἢ περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς κατὰ τὸ φαινόμενον λεγούσης πολλὰ περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ δηλούσης αὐτὸν παντοκράτορα, καὶ ποιητὴν τῶν αἰώνων, καὶ πάντων δημιουργόν, καὶ ἀληθινὸν θεόν, καὶ οὐκ ἔχοντα πρὸ αὐτοῦ θεόν, καὶ ἐπάνω πάντων, καὶ μέγαν καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων θεόν, πρὸς ὃν οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος, καὶ ἐκ δεξιῶν συγκαθεζόμενον τῷ πατρί, καὶ εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ ὄντα, καὶ αὐτὸν εἶναι τὴν αἰώνιον ζωήν, καὶ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, καὶ πάντων κύριον, καὶ μόνον δεσπότην, καὶ ἐξουσιαστήν, οὗτινος ἡ μὲν εἰρήνη οὐκ ἔχει ὅριον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπερέχει πάντα νοῦν, ἡ δὲ βασιλεία ἀτελεύτητος, καὶ ἐν μηδενὶ ἄλλῳ εἶναι τὴν σωτηρίαν, καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἕλκειν πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν τοὺς ἀξίους· κατ' οὐδὲν ὑποδεέστερος–μὴ γένοιτο– νομίζεται ὁ πατὴρ ἢ τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ. 34.2 Τὸν ἴσον τρόπον θεολογούσης περὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑψηλὰ οὐκ ὀφείλει ὡς μικρότερος ἢ ἀνόμοιος λογίζεσθαι ὁ μονογενὴς ἢ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα. 34.3 οὐδεμίας γὰρ κτιστῆς δυνάμεώς ἐστιν, μόνης δὲ τῆς ἀκτίστου τά τε μνημονευθέντα καὶ τὸ δημιουργεῖν οὐσίαν ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων, ἄλογόν τε καὶ λογικήν, 34.4 ζωοποιεῖν τε, ἁμαρτίας τε συγχωρεῖν, καὶ τὴν κτίσιν ἰδίαν λέγειν, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἴσων γινώσκειν τὸν πατέρα, ὡς γινώσκεται ὑπ' αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰσουργεῖν τῷ πατρί, καὶ εἶναι ἐν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἐν αὐτῷ ἐξ ἴσου, ὑπὸ ἀγγέλων τε ὑπηρετεῖσθαι, καὶ τὸ ἔτι τούτων ὑπερτεροῦν τὸ μονογενῆ υἱὸν καὶ θεὸν καὶ φῶς ἐκ φωτὸς καὶ ζωὴν αἰώνιον καὶ ἀλήθειαν καὶ σωτῆρα μαρτυρεῖσθαι καὶ πανταχοῦ παρεῖναι καὶ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ ἐστηρίχθαι, βασιλείαν τε οὐρανῶν καὶ τὴν θεϊκὴν εἰρήνην ὡς αὐτοῦ τυγχάνουσαν ἀβασκάνως πᾶσιν δωρεῖσθαι καὶ τοῖς πιστεύουσιν ἐπικαλουμένοις αὐτὸν τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ διηνεκεῖ σωτηρίᾳ παρέχειν ἀσφάλειαν. 34.5 Οἱ γὰρ κτίσμα καὶ οὐκ ἄναρχον καλοῦντες τὸν ἀληθινὸν υἱὸν θεοῦ καὶ τὸ ἅγιον καὶ ζωοποιὸν πνεῦμα οὐ 39 πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὰς ὑποστάσεις ταύτας, κἂν λέγωσι πιστεύειν· τάχα δὲ οὐδὲ εἰς τὸν πατέρα. 34.6 παραβαίνουσι γὰρ τὴν ἐντολὴν μὲν τοῦ παραγγέλλοντος πατρός· «ἄκουσον, λαός μου, καὶ λαλήσω σοι, Ἰσραήλ, καὶ διαμαρτυροῦμαι σοι, ἐὰν ἀκούσῃς μου· οὐκ ἔσται ἐν σοὶ θεὸς πρόσφατος οὐδὲ προσκυνήσεις θεῷ ἀλ λοτρίῳ» ἀντὶ τοῦ· οὐκ ὄντι ποτὲ ἢ ἑτεροουσίῳ· 34.7 καὶ «κύριον τὸν θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις» 34.8 καί «οὐκ ἔσονταί σοι θεοὶ ἕτεροι πλὴν ἐμοῦ» 34.9 καί «ἐπικατάρατος πᾶς, ὃς ἔχει τὴν ἐλπίδα ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον», τουτέστιν ἐπὶ ποίημα. 34.10 Τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ λέγοντος υἱοῦ ἐν Ματθαίῳ μέν· «οὐδεὶς δύναται δυσὶ κυρίοις δουλεύειν», τουτέστιν δύο φύσεσιν ἢ δεσποτείαις· ἐν Παύλῳ δὲ Ῥωμαίοις
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Didymus the Blind defends the full divinity of Father, Son, and Spirit against those who rank them.
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