5. The Father doeth what He will, and what He will doeth the Son. Do not imagine an Almighty Father and a not Almighty Son: it is error, blot it out within you, let it not cleave in your memory, let it not be drunk into your faith, and if haply any of you shall have drunk it in, let him vomit it up. Almighty is the Father, Almighty the Son. If Almighty begat not Almighty, He begat not very Son. For what say we, brethren, if the Father being greater begat a Son less than He? What said I, begat? Man engenders, being greater, a son being less: it is true: but that is because the one grows old, the other grows up, and by very growing attains to the form of his father. The Son of God, if He groweth not because neither can God wax old, was begotten perfect. And being begotten perfect, if He groweth not, and remained not less, He is equal. For that ye may know Almighty begotten of Almighty, hear Him Who is Truth. That which of Itself Truth saith, is true. What saith Truth? What saith the Son, Who is Truth? “Whatsoever things the Father doeth, these also the Son likewise doeth.”10    John v. 19 The Son is Almighty, in doing all things that He willeth to do. For if the Father doeth some things which the Son doeth not, the Son said falsely, “Whatsoever things the Father doeth, these also the Son doeth likewise.” But because the Son spake truly, believe it: “Whatsoever things the Father doeth, these also the Son doeth likewise,” and ye have believed in the Son that He is Almighty. Which word although ye said not in the Creed, yet this is it that ye expressed when ye believed in the Only Son, Himself God. Hath the Father aught that the Son hath not? This Arian heretic blasphemers say, not I. But what say I? If the Father hath aught that the Son hath not, the Son lieth in saying, “All things that the Father hath, are Mine.”11    John xvi. 15 Many and innumerable are the testimonies by which it is proved that the Son is Very Son of God the Father, and the Father God hath His Very-begotten Son God, and Father and Son is One God.

5. Facit quod vult Pater, facit quod vult Filius. Nolite putare omnipotentem Patrem et non omnipotentem Filium: error est, delete hoc in vobis, non haereat in memoria vestra, non bibatur in fide vestra, et si forte aliquis vestrum biberit, vomat. Omnipotens est Pater, omnipotens Filius. Si omnipotens non genuit 0630 omnipotentem, non verum filium genuit. Quid enim dicimus, fratres, si Pater major minorem filium genuit? Quid enim dixi , genuit? Homo enim major generat filium minorem, verum est: sed quia senescit ille, crescit iste, et ad formam patris sui vel crescendo pervenit. Filius Dei si non crescit, quia nec potest Deus senescere; perfectus natus est. Perfectus quidem natus, si non crescit, et minor non remansit; aequalis est. Nam ut sciatis omnipotentem de omnipotente natum, ipsum audite qui Veritas est. De se quod dicit Veritas, hoc est verum. Quid ait Veritas? quid ait Filius, qui est Veritas? Quaecumque Pater facit, haec et Filius similiter facit (Joan. V, 19). Omnipotens est Filius, omnia faciendo quae voluerit. Nam si facit aliqua Pater quae non facit Filius, falsum dixit Filius: Quaecumque Pater facit, haec et Filius facit similiter. Sed quia verum dixit Filius: credite, Quaecumque Pater facit, haec et Filius facit similiter; et credidistis in Filium omnipotentem. Quod verbum etsi in Symbolo non dixistis, tamen hoc est quod expressistis, quando in unicum ipsum Deum credidistis. Habet aliquid Pater quod non habet Filius? Hoc Ariani haeretici blasphemi dicunt, non ego. Sed ego quid dico? Si habet aliquid Pater, quod non habet Filius; mentitur Filius, qui dicit, Omnia quae habet Pater, mea sunt (Id., XVI, 15). Multa et innumerabilia sunt testimonia quibus probetur quia Filius verus Dei Patris est Filius, et Pater Deus verum genuit Filium Deum, et Pater et Filius unus est Deus.