Contents of Book III.
§1. This third book shows a third fall of Eunomius, as refuting himself, and sometimes saying that the Son is to be called Only-begotten in virtue of natural generation, and that Holy Scripture proves this from the first; at other times, that by reason of His being created He should not be called a Son, but a “product,” or “creature.”
§2. He then once more excellently, appropriately, and clearly examines and expounds the passage, “The Lord Created Me.”
§3. He then shows, from the instance of Adam and Abel, and other examples, the absence of alienation of essence in the case of the “generate” and “ungenerate.”
§4. He thus shows the oneness of the Eternal Son with the Father the identity of essence and the community of nature (wherein is a natural inquiry into the production of wine), and that the terms “Son” and “product” in the naming of the Only-Begotten include a like idea of relationship.
§5. He discusses the incomprehensibility of the Divine essence, and the saying to the woman of Samaria, “Ye worship ye know not what.”
§6. Thereafter he expounds the appellation of “Son,” and of “product of generation,” and very many varieties of “sons,” of God, of men, of rams, of perdition, of light, and of day.
§7. Then he ends the book with an exposition of the Divine and Human names of the Only-Begotten, and a discussion of the terms “generate” and “ungenerate.”
αʹ. Ὁ τρίτος οὗτος λόγος τρίτην πτῶσιν τοῦ Εὐνομίου δεικνύει ὡς ἑαυτὸν διελέγχοντος καὶ ποτὲ μὲν λέγοντος ὅτι διὰ τὸ γεννηθῆναι κατὰ φύσιν δεῖ υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ὀνομάζεσθαι, ὡς τῆς ἁγίας γραφῆς, φησίν, ἄνωθεν τοῦτο δηλούσης, ποτὲ δὲ ὅτι διὰ τὸ κτισθῆναι μηκέτι υἱὸν ἀλλὰ ποίημα λέγεσθαι.
βʹ. Εἶτα πάλιν τὴν τοῦ Κύριος ἔκτισέ με ῥῆσιν παγκάλως καὶ ἁρμοδίως καὶ ἀκριβῶς διεξετάσας ἐκτίθεται.
γʹ. Ἔπειτα τὴν τοῦ γεννητοῦ καὶ ἀγεννήτου οὐκ ἀλλοτρίωσιν οὐσίας ἔκ τε τοῦ Ἀδὰμ καὶ Ἄβελ καὶ ἑτέρων ὑποδειγμάτων δείκνυσιν.
δʹ. Εἶθ' οὕτως τὴν τοῦ υἱοῦ πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἑνότητα καὶ τὸ ταὐτὸν τῆς οὐσίας καὶ κοινὸν τῆς φύσεως: ἐν ᾧ καὶ φυσιολογία περὶ γεννήσεως οἴνου, καὶ ὅτι ὅ τε υἱὸς καὶ τὸ γέννημα ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ μονογενοῦς προσηγορίας ὁμογενῆ τὴν οἰκειότητα ἔχουσιν.
εʹ. Πρὸς τούτοις τὸ ἀκατάληπτον τῆς θείας οὐσίας διέξεισι καὶ τὸ πρὸς τὴν Σαμαρεῖτιν ῥηθὲν Ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε ἑρμηνεύει.
Ϛʹ. Μετὰ ταῦτα τὴν τοῦ υἱοῦ κλῆσιν καὶ « τὴν » τοῦ γεννήματος διαφοράς τε υἱῶν θεοῦ πλείστας καὶ ἀνθρώπων καὶ κριῶν καὶ ἀπωλείας φωτός τε καὶ ἡμέρας ἐκτίθεται.
ζʹ. Πρὸς οἷς τὰς τοῦ μονογενοῦς προσηγορίας θεϊκάς τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνας διερμηνεύσας τὸ γεννητὸν καὶ ἀγέννητον διεξετάσας τὸν λόγον πληροῖ.