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confessing with this faith also the economy which was made by the Lord of creation on behalf of men, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, and having been made flesh in the holy virgin, redeemed us from death, in which we were held captive, having been sold under our own sin, giving His precious blood as a ransom for the redemption of our 19 souls, which He poured out through the cross; and having made for us through Himself the way of resurrection from the dead, He will come in His own time in the glory of the Father to judge every soul in righteousness, when all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth, those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment. And lest the heretical corruption now being sown by Eunomius, falling upon some of the simpler sort without examination, should harm the sincere, we shall of necessity set forth in part the exposition circulated by them and try to refute the wickedness of their dogma. The wording of their dogma, then, is as follows: we believe in the one and only true God according to the teaching of the Lord Himself, not honoring Him with a false voice (for He is true), but as one who truly is by nature and glory God, one, without beginning, eternal, without end, alone. Let him who has professed to believe according to the Lord's teaching not pervert the exposition of the faith made by the Lord of all to what seems good to him, but let him follow the words of the Truth. There, then, since the word of faith contains the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, what agreement do the things now set forth have with the words of the Lord, so as to refer such a dogma 21 to His teaching? Where, then, in the words of the Gospel did the Lord say that one must believe in the one and only true God? They could not show, unless there is some new gospel among them. For what has been read from ancient times up to now in succession in the churches does not contain this phrase which says that one must believe or baptize into the one and only true God, as these men say, but into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. But as we have been taught by the voice of the Lord, we say this, that "the one" does not signify the Father alone, but also indicates the Son with the Father, since the Lord said, "I and the 22 Father are one." And likewise the name "God" is equally applied both to the beginning in which the Word was and to the Word who was in the beginning (for he said, "And the Word was with God, and the Word was God"), so that in what is signified by "Godhead," the Son is also seen together with the Father. And in addition to these things, "the true" cannot be understood as anything other than the Truth. And that the Lord is the Truth, no one at all will contradict, unless someone be a stranger to the Truth.

23 If, then, the Word is also in "the one" and is God and is Truth, as is preached in the Gospel, to what teaching of the Lord does he who uses these distinguishing phrases refer the dogma? For the distinction of "only" is against that which is not only, and of "God" against that which is not God, and of "true" against that which is not 24 true. If, then, looking toward idols, they make the distinction of these terms with reference to them, we also agree; for the name of divinity is applied homonymously to the idols of the nations; for all the gods of the nations are demons [and otherwise: "the only" he distinguishes against the multitude, and "the true" against the false, and those who are not gods against the one who is God]; but if the distinction is made against the only-begotten God, let these wise men learn that "truth" has its distinction only against falsehood, 25 and "God" against that which is not God. But since the Lord, who is Truth, is God and is in the Father and is one with the Father, these distinguishing phrases have no place in the dogma. For he who truly into

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ὁμολογοῦντες μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ταύτης καὶ τὴν γενομένην παρὰ τοῦ δε σπότου τῆς κτίσεως ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἰκονομίαν, ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ, ἀλλ' ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσε μορφὴν δούλου λαβὼν καὶ σαρ κωθεὶς ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ παρθένῳ ἐλυτρώσατο ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ θα νάτου, ἐν ᾧ κατειχόμεθα ὑπὸ τῆς ἑαυτῶν ἁμαρτίας πε πραμένοι, δοὺς ἀντάλλαγμα τῆς λυτρώσεως τῶν ψυχῶν 19 ἡμῶν τὸ τίμιον αὐτοῦ αἷμα, ὃ ἐξέχεε διὰ τοῦ σταυροῦ· καὶ ὁδοποιήσας ἡμῖν δι' ἑαυτοῦ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν ἥξει καιροῖς ἰδίοις ἐν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ πατρὸς κρῖναι πᾶσαν ψυχὴν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, ὅτε πάντες οἱ ἐν τοῖς μνημείοις ἀκούσονται τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξελεύσονται οἱ μὲν τὰ ἀγαθὰ ποιή σαντες εἰς ἀνάστασιν ζωῆς, οἱ δὲ τὰ φαῦλα πράξαντες εἰς ἀνάστασιν κρίσεως. ὡς ἂν δὲ μή τινι τῶν ἁπλουστέρων ἀνεξετάστως παρεμπεσοῦσα ἡ αἱρετικὴ διαφθορὰ ἡ νῦν παρὰ τοῦ Εὐνομίου διασπειρομένη βλάψειε τὸν ἀκέραιον, ἀναγκαίως κατὰ μέρος προτιθέντες τὴν περιφερομένην παρ' αὐτῶν ἔκθεσιν διελέγξαι τὴν κακίαν τοῦ δόγματος αὐτῶν πειρασόμεθα. Ἔχει τοίνυν ἡ λέξις τοῦ δόγματος αὐτῶν οὕτω· πι στεύομεν εἰς τὸν ἕνα καὶ μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεὸν κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ κυρίου διδασκαλίαν, οὐκ ἐψευσμένῃ φωνῇ τιμῶντες αὐτόν (ἔστι γὰρ ἀψευδής), ἀλλ' ὄντως ὄντα φύσει τε καὶ δόξῃ θεὸν ἕνα ἀνάρχως ἀϊδίως ἀτελευτήτως μόνον. ὁ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ κυρίου διδασκαλίαν πιστεύειν ἐπαγγειλά μενος μὴ παρατρεπέτω τὴν παρὰ τοῦ δεσπότου τῶν ὅλων γενομένην τῆς πίστεως ἔκθεσιν πρὸς τὸ ἑαυτῷ δοκοῦν, ἀλλ' ἀκολουθείτω ταῖς παρὰ τῆς ἀληθείας φωναῖς. ἐκεῖ τοίνυν τοῦ λόγου τῆς πίστεως περιέχοντος τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, τίνα συμ φωνίαν ἔχει τὰ νῦν ἐκτεθειμένα πρὸς τὰς τοῦ δεσπότου φωνάς, ὥστε εἰς τὴν ἐκείνου διδασκαλίαν τὸ τοιοῦτον ἀνα 21 φέρειν δόγμα; ποῦ τοίνυν εἶπε δεῖν πιστεύειν εἰς τὸν ἕνα καὶ μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεὸν ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελικοῖς λόγοις ὁ κύριος, οὐκ ἂν ἔχοιεν ἐπιδεῖξαι, εἰ μή τι νέον ἐστὶ παρ' αὐτοῖς εὐαγγέλιον. ἃ γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχαίων μέχρι τοῦ νῦν κατὰ διαδοχὴν ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις ἀναγινώσκεται, ταύτην τὴν φωνὴν οὐ περιέχει τὴν λέγουσαν δεῖν πιστεύειν ἢ βαπτίζειν εἰς τὸν ἕνα καὶ μόνον ἀληθινὸν θεόν, καθὼς οὗτοι λέγουσιν, ἀλλ' εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος. ὡς δὲ ἡμεῖς παρὰ τῆς τοῦ δεσπότου φωνῆς ἐδιδάχθημεν, τοῦτό φαμεν, ὅτι τὸ ἓν οὐ τὸν πατέρα σημαίνει μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τῷ πατρὶ συνενδείκνυται, οὕτως εἰπόντος τοῦ κυρίου ὅτι Ἐγὼ καὶ ὁ 22 πατὴρ ἕν ἐσμεν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὸ θεὸς ὄνομα ἐπίσης ἐπικέκληται τῇ τε ἀρχῇ ἐν ᾗ ὁ λόγος καὶ τῷ ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ ὄντι λόγῳ (εἶπε γὰρ ὅτι Καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος), ὥστε καὶ ἐν τῷ τῆς θεότητος σημαινομένῳ ὁμοίως τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν συνθεωρεῖ σθαι. πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ τὸ ἀληθινὸν ἄλλο τι παρὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν νοηθῆναι οὐ δύναται. ὅτι δὲ ἀλήθεια ὁ κύριος, οὐδεὶς ἀντιλέξει πάντως, εἰ μή τις εἴη τῆς ἀληθείας ἀλ λότριος.

23 Εἰ τοίνυν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ ὁ λόγος ἐστὶν καὶ θεός ἐστι καὶ ἀλήθεια, καθὼς ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ κηρύσσεται, εἰς ποίαν τοῦ κυρίου διδασκαλίαν ἀναφέρει τὸ δόγμα ὁ ταῖς διασταλτικαῖς ταύταις φωναῖς κεχρημένος; ἡ γὰρ ἀντι διαστολὴ τοῦ μόνου πρὸς τὸν μὴ μόνον ἐστὶ καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸς τὸν μὴ θεὸν καὶ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ πρὸς τὸν μὴ ἀλη 24 θινόν. εἰ μὲν οὖν πρὸς τὰ εἴδωλα βλέποντες πρὸς ἐκεῖνα ποιοῦνται τὴν τῶν ῥημάτων ἀντιδιαίρεσιν, καὶ ἡμεῖς συν τιθέμεθα· καθ' ὁμωνυμίαν γὰρ τὸ τῆς θεότητος ὄνομα τοῖς εἰδώλοις τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπιλέγεται· πάντες γὰρ οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν δαιμόνια [καὶ ἄλλως· πρὸς τὸ πλῆθος ἀντι διαιρεῖ τὸ μόνον καὶ πρὸς τὰ ψευδῆ τὸ ἀληθινὸν καὶ τοὺς μὴ ὄντας θεοὺς πρὸς τὸν ὄντα θεόν]· εἰ δὲ πρὸς τὸν μονο γενῆ θεὸν ἡ ἀντιδιαίρεσις γίνεται, μαθέτωσαν οἱ σοφοὶ ὅτι ἀλήθεια πρὸς μόνον τὸ ψεῦδος τὴν ἀντιδιαστολὴν ἔχει 25 καὶ θεὸς πρὸς τὸν μὴ ὄντα θεόν. τοῦ δὲ κυρίου, ὅς ἐστιν ἀλήθεια, θεοῦ ὄντος καὶ ἐν τῷ πατρὶ ὄντος καὶ ἓν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ὄντος, αἱ διασταλτικαὶ αὗται φωναὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ δόγματος χώραν οὐκ ἔχουσιν. ὁ γὰρ ἀληθῶς εἰς