The Indivisibility of the Godhead
the resurrection, eternal life. We have learned from the divine writings that the divinity of the Father and of the Son is to be indivisible.
For if anyone separates the Son, that is, the Word of the Pantokrator God, it is necessary for him either to think them to be two gods (which has been considered alien to the divine teaching) or to confess that the Word is not God (which also appears to be alien to the right faith, the Evangelist saying, "and the Word was God" John 1:1). But I have learned precisely that the Son of the Father is indivisible and inseparable in power.
For the Savior himself, the Lord our Jesus Christ, says, "the Father is in me, and I in the Father" John 14:10, and "I and the Father are one" John 10:30, and "he who has seen me has seen the Father" John 14:9. This faith I have received from the divine writings and have been taught by the ancestors according to God, and in the church of God I preach and to you now I have written, possessing the counterpart of this with myself.
And I permit the antitype of this to be inscribed in the letter to the bishops, so that some of those not knowing precisely might be deceived by paying attention to those writing under them. Farewell.
Greek
ἀνάστασιν, ζωὴν αἰώνιον. ἀδιαίρετον εἶναι τὴν θεότητα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ παρὰ τῶν θείων μεμαθήκαμεν γραφῶν. εἰ γάρ τις χωρίζει τὸν υἱόν, τουτέστι τὸν λόγον, τοῦ παντοκράτορος θεοῦ, ἀνάγκη αὐτὸν ἢ δύο θεοὺς εἶναι νομίζειν (ὅπερ ἀλλότριον τῆς θείας διδασκαλίας εἶναι νενόμισται) ἢ τὸν λόγον μὴ εἶναι θεὸν ὁμολογεῖν (ὅπερ καὶ αὐτὸ ἀλλότριον τῆς ὀρθῆς πίστεως εἶναι φαίνεται, τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ λέγοντος "καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος"). ἐγὼ δὲ ἀκριβῶς μεμάθηκα ὅτι ἀδιαίρετος καὶ ἀχώριστός ἐστιν, ᾗ δύναμις, τοῦ πατρὸς ὁ υἱός. αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ σωτήρ, ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, φησὶν "ἐν ἐμοὶ ὁ πατήρ, κἀγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρί" καὶ "ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν" καὶ "ὁ ἐμὲ ἑωρακὼς ἑώρακε τὸν πατέρα". ταύτην καὶ παρὰ τῶν θείων γραφῶν εἰληφὼς τὴν πίστιν καὶ παρὰ τῶν κατὰ θεὸν προγόνων διδαχθεὶς ἔν τε τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησίᾳ κηρύττω καὶ πρὸς σὲ νῦν γέγραφα, τὸ ἀντίγραφον τούτου παρ' ἐμαυτῷ κατασχών. καὶ ἀξιῶ τὸ ἀντίτυπόν σε τούτου τῇ πρὸς τοὺς ἐπισκόπους ἐπιστολῇ ἐγγράψαι, ἵνα μή τινες τῶν ἀκριβῶς μὴ εἰδότων ἡμᾶς κἀκείνοις τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτῶν γραφεῖσι προσέχοντες ἀπατηθῶσιν. Ἔρρωσθε.
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Deposed in the East, cleared in Rome: fragments of the bishop who fought Arianism hardest.
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