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of the divine voice of Paul the apostle, who writing to the Galatians themselves advised them not to be removed "from him who called" them "in the grace of Christ to a different gospel," for "it is not another," as he himself said, "except there are some who trouble" them 1.1.8 "and want to pervert the gospel of Christ," and to pay attention necessarily to that, through which also rebuking himself, so great an apostle, to shame those who were trying to pervert the men, added, saying, "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you other than what we preached to you, let him be 1.1.9 accursed." which indeed he repeated a second time, saying, "As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches a gospel to you other than what you received, let him be accursed." And what was this, other than which one was not to preach another gospel, if not certainly that very thing which the Savior is recorded to have said when delivering it to his disciples: "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and 1.1.10 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"? For He alone has bestowed upon us this grace of the knowledge of the Holy Trinity through the mystical regeneration, with neither Moses nor any of the prophets having ministered this to the former people. For it was fitting for the Son of God alone to preach the Father's grace to all men, since "the law was given through Moses," but through "Jesus Christ" alone, as through 1.1.11 the "only-begotten Son" Jesus, "grace and truth" came to be. Hence, reasonably, he, in the manner of a tutor, delivered to the former people, who were infants, "the basic principles of the oracles of God," keeping them from polytheistic error and preaching to know only one God. But the saving grace, providing us a certain super-cosmic and angelic knowledge, openly revealed the mystery kept silent in former times for the former people, proclaiming God himself who is beyond all things, the one known to the men of old, to be both God and Father of the only-begotten Son, and supplying the power of the Holy Spirit through the Son to the 1.1.12 worthy. In some way, from this very source, the church of God, having received, preserves the holy and blessed and mystical Trinity of Father and Son and Holy Spirit for a saving hope through regeneration in Christ. And this was the gospel, which it was not lawful to change "to a different gospel, which is not another," as the great apostle even to this day testifies to the Galatians, crying out through the epistle to them, "Even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel to you other than what you received, let him be accursed"; from afar, as is likely, enjoining 1.1.13 to pay attention neither to bishops nor rulers nor teachers, if any of them should pervert the true word of faith. And what was this other than that which teaches to know God the Father and delivers to know the Son of God and to be granted to partake of the Holy Spirit? which things would be the distinguishing marks of Christians alone, the 1.1.14 holy church of God being in this way distinguished from the Jewish manner. For just as that rejected the polytheistic and Hellenic error by the confession of one God, so also the excellent knowledge of the church concerning the Son provided something better and more, teaching to know the same God as Father of an only-begotten Son, who is truly Son and living and subsisting. "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself," the only-1.1.15 begotten of God himself taught, saying, so that the Father may also be truly a Father, not being so named in this way merely by voice, nor possessing a false title, but in truth and in deed the Father of an only-begotten Son, and the Son truly a Son. But he who supposes the Son to be a mere word, and who testifies that he is only a word, and often says this very thing, that he was nothing other than a word, remaining within the quiescent Father but being active in creating the creation, similarly to the

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τῆς θείας φωνῆς Παύλου τοῦ ἀποστόλου, ὃς αὐτοῖς Γαλάταις γράφων παρῄνει μὴ μετατίθεσθαι «ἀπὸ τοῦ καλέσαντος» αὐτοὺς «ἐν χάριτι Χριστοῦ εἰς ἕτερον εὐαγγέλιον» «οὐκ ἔστιν» γὰρ «ἄλλο», ὡς αὐτὸς ἔφη, «εἰ μή τινές εἰσιν οἱ ταράσσοντες» αὐτοὺς 1.1.8 «καὶ θέλοντες μεταστρέψαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ Χριστοῦ», κἀκείνῳ δὲ ἀναγκαίως προσέχειν τὸν νοῦν, δι' οὗ καὶ ἑαυτοῦ καθαπτόμενος ὁ τοσοῦτος ἀπόστολος εἰς δυσώπησιν τῶν διαστρέφειν τοὺς ἄνδρας πειρωμένων προσετίθει λέγων «ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐὰν ἡμεῖς ἢ ἄγγελος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ὑμῖν εὐαγγελίσηται παρ' ὃ εὐηγγελισάμεθα ὑμῖν, ἀνάθεμα 1.1.9 ἔστω». ὃ δὴ ἐπαναλαβὼν δευτεροῖ φάσκων «ὡς προειρήκαμεν καὶ ἄρτι πάλιν λέγω, εἴ τις ὑμᾶς εὐαγγελίζεται παρ' ὃ παρελάβετε, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω». τί δὲ ἦν τοῦτο, παρ' ὃ οὐκ ἦν εὐαγγελίζεσθαι ἄλλο εὐαγγέλιον, ἤ που πάντως αὐτὸ ἐκεῖνο ὃ δὴ τοῖς αὐτοῦ παραδιδοὺς μαθηταῖς ὁ σωτὴρ ἀναγέγραπται εἰρηκὼς «πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ 1.1.10 τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος»; ταύτην γὰρ ἡμῖν τὴν χάριν τῆς γνώσεως τῆς ἁγίας τριάδος μόνος αὐτὸς διὰ τῆς μυστικῆς δεδώρηται ἀναγεννήσεως, οὔτε Μωσέως οὔτε προφητῶν τινος τῷ προτέρῳ λαῷ ταύτην διακονησαμένου· μόνῳ γὰρ ἔπρεπεν τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν πατρικὴν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποις εὐαγγελίσασθαι χάριν, ἐπειδήπερ «ὁ νόμος διὰ Μωσέως ἐδόθη», διὰ δὲ μόνου «Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ», ὡς διὰ 1.1.11 «μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ» Ἰησοῦ, «ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια» ἐγένετο. ἔνθεν εἰκότως ὁ μὲν παιδαγωγοῦ τρόπον νηπιάζοντι τῷ προτέρῳ λαῷ «στοιχεῖα τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ» παρεδίδου «λογίων», πολυθέου μὲν ἀπείργων πλάνης, θεὸν δὲ κηρύττων ἕνα μόνον εἰδέναι. ἡ δὲ σωτήριος χάρις, ὑπερκόσμιόν τινα καὶ ἀγγελικὴν ἡμῖν παρέχουσα γνῶσιν, τὸ πάλαι τῷ προτέρῳ λαῷ σεσιγημένον μυστήριον ἀναφανδὸν ἐξεκάλυπτεν, αὐτὸν τὸν ἐπέκεινα τῶν ὅλων θεόν, τὸν τοῖς πάλαι ἀνθρώποις ἐγνωσμένον, θεὸν ἅμα καὶ πατέρα εἶναι υἱοῦ τοῦ μονογενοῦς κηρύττουσα, τήν τε τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῖς 1.1.12 ἀξίοις ἐπιχορηγοῦσα δύναμιν. αὐτόθεν πως τὴν ἁγίαν καὶ μακαρίαν καὶ μυστικὴν τριάδα πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος εἰς σωτήριον ἐλπίδα διὰ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναγεννήσεως ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησία παραλαβοῦσα φυλάττει. καὶ τοῦτ' ἦν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ὃ μὴ θεμιτὸν εἶναι μετατίθεσθαι «εἰς ἕτερον εὐαγγέλιον, ὃ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλο» ὁ μέγας ἀπόστολος εἰσέτι δεῦρο Γαλάταις μαρτύρεται, διὰ τῆς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπιστολῆς βοῶν «κἂν ἡμεῖς ἢ ἄγγελος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ εὐαγγελίζηται ὑμᾶς παρ' ὃ παρελάβετε, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω»· πόρρωθεν, ὡς εἰκός, μηδ' ἐπισκόποις μηδ' ἄρχουσιν μηδὲ διδασκάλοις προσέχειν, εἰ τὸν ἀληθῆ τῆς πίστεως διαστρέφοι τις αὐτῶν λόγον, διαστελλό1.1.13 μενος. τίς δ' ἦν οὗτος ἢ ὁ θεὸν πατέρα εἰδέναι διδάσκων καὶ υἱὸν θεοῦ γιγνώσκειν παραδιδοὺς καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου φιλοτιμεῖσθαι μετέχειν; ἅπερ μόνων ἂν γένοιτο Χριστιανῶν γνωρίσματα, ὧδέ πη τῆς 1.1.14 ἁγίας τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκκλησίας ἀφοριζομένης τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ τρόπου. ὡς γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τὴν πολύθεον καὶ Ἑλληνικὴν ἀπεδοκίμαζεν πλάνην ἑνὸς θεοῦ ὁμολογίᾳ, οὕτως καὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἡ ἐξαίρετος περὶ υἱοῦ γνῶσις κρεῖττόν τι καὶ πλέον τι προὐξένει, τὸν αὐτὸν θεὸν πατέρα εἰδέναι μονογενοῦς υἱοῦ διδάσκουσα, ἀληθῶς υἱοῦ ὄντος καὶ ζῶντος καὶ ὑφεστῶτος. «ὡς γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ ζωὴν ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῷ οὕτως καὶ τῷ υἱῷ ἔδωκεν ζωὴν ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ» αὐτὸς λέγων ἐδίδασκεν ὁ μονο1.1.15 γενὴς τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵν' ᾖ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἀληθῶς πατὴρ οὐ μέχρι φωνῆς ὧδέ πη χρηματίζων, οὐδὲ ψευδῆ κεκτημένος τὴν προσηγορίαν, ἀληθείᾳ δὲ καὶ ἔργῳ πατὴρ υἱοῦ μονογενοῦς καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ἀληθῶς υἱός. ὁ δὲ ψιλὸν λόγον εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν ὑπολαμβάνων καὶ μόνον λόγον εἶναι μαρτυρόμενος καὶ πολλάκις τοῦτ' αὐτὸ λέγων ὡς οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἦν ἢ λόγος, ἔνδον μένων ἐν ἡσυχάζοντι τῷ πατρὶ ἐνεργῶν δὲ ἐν τῷ τὴν κτίσιν δημιουργεῖν, ὁμοίως τῷ