of the thought of Eusebius, as he himself has written, lying in brevity, to leave unexamined, or using such a consideration to bring the craftiness of the letter to light. 36 So then, to say that he was begotten before the ages seems to have been said consistently; for an offspring that has come forth becomes of the father who put it forth. But the other thing is no longer soundly nor piously accepted by him. For to say that the one who came forth from him is not the Word, and that this is the true manner of begetting, but is simply Son only, is accustomed to provide some impression of a human appearance to the hearers. 37 Paulinus wrote these things, not being mindful of evangelical teaching, but confessing that some are moved in this way from themselves, while others were brought to this way from the readings of the aforementioned men. Then, finally, adding a kind of crown to the proof, he subscribed to his own letter with sayings from Origen, as being able to persuade more than the evangelists and the apostles. And the sayings are these: it is time, taking up again the subject of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit, to go through a few of the things then omitted; concerning the Father, that being undivided and indivisible he becomes Father of the Son, not by projecting him, as some suppose. For if the Son is a projection of the Father and an offspring from him, such as are the offspring of animals, it is necessary that the one projecting and the one projected be a body. 38 Origen wrote these things, not wishing to learn about the eternity of the Word from the holy prophets and apostles, but having given more to himself, he dares in vain to narrate a second hypothesis of the Word. 39 That Origen, writing such things, used his own dogmas, is clear from the fact that he also often overthrows his own teachings. At any rate, it is fitting to recall what he says about God in another passage. And he writes thus: For God did not begin to be Father, being hindered, as men who become fathers are, by not yet being able to be fathers. For if God is always perfect, and the power to be a father is present to him, and it is good for him to be the father of such a son, why does he postpone and deprive himself of the good and, so to speak, from when he is able to be a father, not become a father? The same thing, certainly, must also be said concerning the Holy Spirit. How then, when Origen also wrote this, did the blessed Paulinus (according to him) not consider it without risk to hide this, but to use the contrary things for the construction of his own opinions, for which I would say not even Origen himself would be able to give an account? 40 And Paulinus, his father, being persuaded by these sayings, does not hesitate to say and write the same things, at one time saying Christ is a second god and that this god has become more human, at another time defining him to be a creature. And that this is so, he once said also to us, while passing through Ancyra, that Christ is a creature. 41 And for this reason he does not name himself Son of God, but everywhere calls himself Son of Man, so that through such a confession he might prepare the man to become Son of God by adoption through communion with him and after the completion of the action again, as Word, be united to God, fulfilling that which was foretold by the apostle: "then he himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all." For he will then be that which he was before. 42 For the Word "was in the beginning," being nothing other than Word. But the man united to the Word, not existing before, came to be [a man], as John teaches us, saying "and the Word became flesh." For this reason, therefore, he appears to make mention of the Word alone; for whether the divine scripture mentions the name of Jesus or of Christ, it appears to name the Word of God who is with human flesh. But if anyone should profess to be able to show the name of Christ or Jesus applied to the Word alone even before the new covenant, he will find this spoken prophetically, as is also clear from this: for it says, "the kings of the earth stood by and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ." 43 so that

νοήματος Εὐσεβίου, ὡς αὐτὸς γέγραφεν, ἐν βραχυλογίᾳ κείμενον ἀνεξέταστον καταλιπεῖν, ἢ τοιαύτῃ θεωρίᾳ χρησάμενον τὸ πανοῦργον τοῦ γράμματος εἰς φῶς ἀγαγεῖν. 36 τὸ μὲν οὖν πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων αὐτὸν γεγεννῆσθαι φῆσαι, ἀκολούθως εἰρηκέναι δοκεῖ· γέννημα γὰρ τὸ προελθὸν τοῦ προεμένου γίγνεται πατρός. θάτερον δ' οὐκέτι ὑγιῶς οὐδ' εὐσεβῶς αὐτῷ παρείληπται. τὸ γὰρ μὴ λόγον εἶναι φῆσαι τὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ προελθόντα καὶ τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν τῆς γεννήσεως ἀληθῆ τρόπον, ἀλλ' ἁπλῶς υἱὸν μόνον, ἔμφασίν τινα τοῖς ἀκούουσιν ἀνθρωπίνης ὄψεως παρέχειν εἴωθεν. 37 οὐκ εὐαγγελικῆς ὑπομιμνήσκων διδασκαλίας ταῦτ' ἔγραψεν Παυλῖνος, ὁμολογῶν δὲ ἐνίους μὲν ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν οὕτω κινεῖσθαι, ἐνίους δὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀναγνωσμάτων τῶν προειρημένων ἀνδρῶν τοῦτον ἦχθαι τὸν τρόπον. εἶτα τέλος, ὥσπερ τινὰ κορωνίδα τῆς ἀποδείξεως ἐπάγων, ἐκ τῶν Ὠριγένους ῥητῶν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ὑπέγραψεν ἐπιστολῇ, ὡς μᾶλλον πεῖσαι δυναμένου παρὰ τοὺς εὐαγγελιστὰς καὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους. ἔστιν δὲ τὰ ῥητὰ ταῦτα· ὥρα ἐπαναλαβόντα περὶ πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ὀλίγα τῶν τότε παραλελειμμένων διεξελθεῖν· περὶ πατρὸς ὡς ἀδιαίρετος ὢν καὶ ἀμέριστος υἱοῦ γίγνεται πατήρ, οὐ προβαλὼν αὐτόν, ὡς οἴονταί τινες. εἰ γὰρ πρόβλημά ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ γέννημα ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ὁποῖα τὰ τῶν ζῴων γεννήματα, ἀνάγκη σῶμα εἶναι τὸν προβαλόντα καὶ τὸν προβεβλημένον. 38 ταῦτα Ὠριγένης γέγραφεν, μὴ παρὰ τῶν ἱερῶν προφητῶν τε καὶ ἀποστόλων περὶ τῆς ἀιδιότητος τοῦ λόγου μαθεῖν βουληθείς, ἀλλ' ἑαυτῷ δεδωκὼς πλεῖον δευτέραν ὑπόθεσιν διηγήσασθαι τοῦ λόγου μάτην τολμᾷ. 39 ὅτι τὰ τοιαῦτα γράφων Ὠριγένης ἰδίοις ἐχρῆτο δόγμασιν, δῆλον ἀφ' ὧν καὶ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἀνατρέπει πολλάκις. ἐν γοῦν ἑτέρῳ χωρίῳ ἅτινα περὶ θεοῦ λέγει, ἀκόλουθόν ἐστιν ὑπομνῆσαι. γράφει δὲ οὕτως· οὐ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς πατὴρ εἶναι ἤρξατο κωλυόμενος, ὡς οἱ γινόμενοι πατέρες ἄνθρωποι, ὑπὸ τοῦ μὴ δύνασθαί πω πατέρες εἶναι. εἰ γὰρ ἀεὶ τέλειος ὁ θεός, καὶ πάρεστιν αὐτῷ δύναμις τοῦ πατέρα αὐτὸν εἶναι, καὶ καλὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι πατέρα τοιούτου υἱοῦ, τί ἀναβάλλεται καὶ τοῦ καλοῦ ἑαυτὸν στερίσκει καί, ὡς ἔστιν εἰπεῖν, ἐξ οὗ δύναται πατὴρ εἶναι, οὐ γίνεται πατήρ; τὸ αὐτὸ μέντοιγε καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος λεκτέον. πῶς οὖν Ὠριγένους καὶ τοῦτο γράψαντος, ὁ μακάριος κατ' αὐτὸν Παυλῖνος τοῦτο μὲν ἀποκρύψασθαι οὐκ ἀκίνδυνον ἐνόμισεν, χρήσασθαι δὲ εἰς κατασκευὴν τῶν ἑαυτῷ δοκούντων τοῖς ἐναντίοις, ὧν οὐδὲ αὐτὸν ἂν Ὠριγένη εἴποιμι τὸν λόγον ἀποδοῦναι δυνατὸν εἶναι; 40 τούτοις δὲ τοῖς ῥητοῖς καὶ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ πειθόμενος Παυλῖνος, ταὐτὰ λέγειν τε καὶ γράφειν οὐκ ὀκνεῖ, ποτὲ μὲν δεύτερον θεὸν λέγων τὸν Χριστὸν καὶ τοῦτον ἀνθρωπικώτερον γεγενῆσθαι θεόν, ποτὲ δὲ κτίσμα αὐτὸν εἶναι διοριζόμενος. ὅτι δὲ τοῦθ' οὕτως ἔχει, καὶ πρὸς ἡμᾶς ποτε, τὴν Ἀγκύραν διιών, κτίσμα εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν ἔφασκεν. 41 καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐχ υἱὸν θεοῦ ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζει, ἀλλὰ πανταχοῦ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ἑαυτὸν λέγει, ἵνα διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης ὁμολογίας θέσει τὸν ἄνθρωπον διὰ τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν κοινωνίαν υἱὸν θεοῦ γενέσθαι παρασκευάσῃ καὶ μετὰ τὸ τέλος τῆς πράξεως αὖθις, ὡς λόγος, ἑνωθῇ τῷ θεῷ, πληρῶν ἐκεῖνο τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀποστόλου προειρημένον· "τότε αὐτὸς ὑποταγήσεται τῷ ὑποτάξαντι αὐτῷ τὰ πάντα, ἵνα ᾖ πάντα καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν ὁ θεός". ἔσται γὰρ τηνικαῦτα τοῦθ' ὅπερ πρότερον ἦν. 42 ὁ μὲν γὰρ λόγος "ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν", μηδὲν ἕτερον ὢν ἢ λόγος. ὁ δὲ τῷ λόγῳ ἑνωθεὶς ἄνθρωπος, οὐκ ὢν πρότερον, γέγονεν [ἄνθρωπος] ὡς διδάσκει ἡμᾶς Ἰωάννης λέγων "καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο". διὰ τοῦτο τοίνυν τοῦ λόγου μνημονεύων φαίνεται μόνου· εἴτε γὰρ Ἰησοῦ εἴτε Χριστοῦ ὀνόματος μνημονεύει ἡ θεία γραφή, τὸν μετὰ [τὸν] τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης ὄντα σαρκὸς τοῦ θεοῦ λόγον ὀνομάζειν φαίνεται. εἰ δέ τις καὶ πρὸ τῆς νέας διαθήκης τὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἢ Ἰησοῦ ὄνομα ἐπὶ τοῦ λόγου μόνου δεικνύναι δύνασθαι ἐπαγγέλλοιτο, εὑρήσει τοῦτο προφητικῶς εἰρημένον, ὥσπερ καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου δῆλον· "παρέστησαν" γάρ φησιν "οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ". 43 ὥστε