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alone, the Logos would reasonably appear to be one and the same with God; but at another time comparing the Word of God with the human word, and adding that the word in man is one and the same with man, being separated by nothing else than only by the energy of action. Wherefore at one time he declared that before the constitution of the world nothing else existed except God, and again he said in the same words that when the world had not yet come into being, there was nothing else except God alone; 1.17.2 but at another time he compared that of God to our significant word, in which he wrote thus: just as all things that have come into being have come into being by the Father through the Word, so also the things spoken by the Father are signified through the Word. And indeed, having in these words proclaimed him a significant word, proceeding next he establishes that he is inseparable in hypostasis and one and the same with the Father, saying something like this: But this is easy, I think, for those who are well-disposed to know also from a certain small 1.17.3 and humble example according to us. For it is not possible for anyone to separate the word of man in power and hypostasis. For the word is one and the same with man, and separated by nothing else than only by the energy of action. And again he uses the same image in which he says: for all things whatsoever the Father says, he appears to say these everywhere through the Word. And this is clear also from ourselves, inasmuch as small things can be compared to the great and divine things; for we too, all things whatsoever we wish to say and to do as far as possible, we do by our word. 1.17.4 One should think one is hearing these things spoken not more by Marcellus than by Sabellius, unless perhaps Marcellus were mocking Sabellius for this, that he did not shamelessly dare to name Son the significant word in God, as he himself thinks. For on the other hand not so much folly of reasoning was present in him, as to attribute a word similarly to men and to the God over all, nor was he so foolish as to call the non-subsistent word Son of God. 1.17.5 Wherefore Sabellius, saying there is one God, but denying the Son, asserted, consequently to the hypothesis given by him, that the same was Father and Son; but Marcellus, similarly to him, granting that God and the Word in him are one and the same, confesses that Sabellius has erred in vain, but does not confess it of himself also. 1.17.6 For either he ought to accept that one, or to blame himself also, or, blaming that one, to turn away from the same evil doctrine as he, and not in the manner of a sculptor represent God as conversing with his own thought and with his own reason, and exhorting himself to say: Come, let us make, come, let us fashion a 1.17.7 statue for thus, he said, God also had said the "Let us make man," nor should one suppose at one time an internal word as in the case of man, and at another a significant word like the expressed word in us, to be also in God. For it would be more tolerable to hear these things from Sabellius or from some of the Jews who openly deny the Son of God, than from a Christian 1.17.8 saying them. But he, as if priding himself on the Jewish teaching, introduces to the church of Christ this impious and godless dogma about the non-existence of the Son of God, constructing through the whole of the treatise composed by him that before the world came to be nothing else existed except God alone, in order to block the way for the Son. 1.17.9 But he also prides himself, boasting that he knows one God; as if we do not also say this, we who have accepted that the Son of God is truly Son, and have learned from him to know one God, that he himself is both God and Father of the only-begotten Son, who is of course truly his Son, begotten from him before all ages, and not only called Word before the assumption of the flesh, as this noble one defines, but also countless other things; but he even in this speaks falsely against the divine Scripture, strongly asserting that before the incarnate presence he was called nothing else than Word. 1.18.1 Listen then, how he affirms, writing in this manner in the very words: so that it is clear from every side that no other name is fitting to the eternity of the Word than this which the most holy disciple and apostle of God

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μόνη, ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν εἰκότως ἂν ὁ λόγος εἶναι τῷ θεῷ φαίνοιτο· ποτὲ δὲ παραβάλλων τῷ ἀνθρωπείῳ λόγῳ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐπιλέγων ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν εἶναι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ λόγον, οὐδενὶ χωριζόμενον ἑτέρῳ ἢ μόνῃ τῇ τῆς πράξεως ἐνεργείᾳ. διόπερ ποτὲ μὲν ἀπεφαίνετο πρὸ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου συστάσεως μηδὲν ἕτερον εἶναι πλὴν θεοῦ, καὶ πάλιν αὐτοῖς ῥήμασιν ἔλεγεν ὅτι μήπω τοῦ κόσμου γεγονότος οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἦν πλὴν θεοῦ μόνου· 1.17.2 ποτὲ δὲ τῷ ἡμετέρῳ σημαντικῷ λόγῳ τὸν τοῦ θεοῦ παρέβαλλεν, ἐν οἷς ὧδε ἔγραφεν ὥσπερ τὰ γεγονότα πάντα ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς διὰ τοῦ λόγου γέγονεν, οὕτω καὶ τὰ λεγόμενα ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς διὰ τοῦ λόγου σημαίνεται. καὶ δὴ λόγον σημαντικὸν ἐν τούτοις αὐτὸν ἀνειπών, προϊὼν ἑξῆς ἀχώριστον αὐτὸν τῇ ὑποστάσει ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν εἶναι τῷ πατρὶ παρίστησιν, ὧδέ πη λέγων τοῦτο δὲ ῥᾴδιον, οἶμαι, τοῖς εὖ φρονοῦσιν καὶ ἀπὸ μικροῦ 1.17.3 τινος καὶ ταπεινοῦ καθ' ἡμᾶς παραδείγματος γνῶναι. οὐδὲ γὰρ τὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου λόγον δυνάμει καὶ ὑποστάσει χωρίσαι τινὶ δυνατόν. ἓν γάρ ἐστιν καὶ ταὐτὸν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ὁ λόγος, καὶ οὐδενὶ χωριζόμενος ἑτέρῳ ἢ μόνῃ τῇ τῆς πράξεως ἐνεργείᾳ. καὶ αὖθις τῇ αὐτῇ κέχρηται εἰκόνι ἐν οἷς φησιν πάντα γὰρ ὅσα ἂν ὁ πατὴρ λέγῃ, ταῦτα πανταχοῦ διὰ τοῦ λόγου λέγων φαίνεται. τοῦτο δὲ δῆλόν ἐστιν καὶ ἀφ' ἡμῶν αὐτῶν, ὅσα μικρὰ τοῖς μεγάλοις καὶ θείοις ἀπεικάσαι· καὶ ἡμεῖς γὰρ πάντα ὅσα ἂν θέλωμεν κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν λέγειν τε καὶ ποιεῖν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ ποιοῦμεν λόγῳ. 1.17.4 ταῦτα οὐ μᾶλλον Μαρκέλλου ἢ Σαβελλίου λέγοντος ἀκούειν προσήκει νομίζειν, εἰ μὴ ἄρα τοῦτ' ἐπισκώπτοι Σαβελλίῳ Μάρκελλος, ὅτι μὴ ἀναιδῶς τὸν ἐν τῷ θεῷ σημαντικὸν λόγον, ὡς αὐτὸς οἴεται, υἱὸν ἐτόλμα ὀνομάζειν. οὐ γὰρ αὖ τοσαύτη αὐτῷ λογισμοῦ παρῆν ἄνοια, ὡς λόγον ὁμοίως ἀνθρώποις καὶ τῷ ἐπὶ πάντων διδόναι θεῷ, οὐδ' οὕτως ἠλίθιος ἦν, ὡς τὸν μὴ ὑφεστῶτα λόγον υἱὸν θεοῦ καλεῖν. 1.17.5 διόπερ Σαβέλλιος ἕνα θεὸν εἰπών, τὸν δ' υἱὸν ἀρνησάμενος, ἑπομένως τῇ αὐτῷ δοθείσῃ ὑποθέσει τὸν αὐτὸν πατέρα εἶναι καὶ υἱὸν ἔφασκεν· Μάρκελλος δ' ὁμοίως ἐκείνῳ ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ λόγον διδούς, μάτην ἐσφάλθαι τὸν Σαβέλλιον, οὐχὶ δὲ καὶ 1.17.6 ἑαυτὸν ὁμολογεῖ. ἢ γὰρ κἀκεῖνον ἀποδέχεσθαι χρῆν, ἢ καὶ αὑτὸν μέμφεσθαι ἢ μεμφόμενον ἐκεῖνον τὴν ὁμοίαν αὐτῷ κακοδοξίαν ἐκτρέπεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἀνδριαντοποιοῦ δίκην ὑποτίθεσθαι τὸν θεὸν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἐνθυμήσει καὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ λογισμῷ προσδιαλεγόμενον αὐτόν τε ἑαυτῷ παρακελευόμενον λέγειν· ἄγε ποιήσωμεν, ἄγε πλάσωμεν ἀν1.17.7 δρίαντα οὕτω γὰρ καὶ τὸν θεὸν εἰρηκέναι τὸ «ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον» ἔφη, μηδὲ ποτὲ μὲν ἐνδιάθετον ὡς ἐπ' ἀνθρώπῳ λόγον ποτὲ δὲ σημαντικὸν ὡς τὸν ἐν ἡμῖν προφορικὸν καὶ ἐν τῷ θεῷ ὑποτίθεσθαι. ταῦτα γὰρ Σαβελλίου ἢ Ἰουδαίων τινὸς τῶν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπαρακαλύπτως ἀρνουμένων ἀνεκτὸν ἦν μᾶλλον ἢ Χριστιανοῦ λέ1.17.8 γοντος ἀκούειν. ὁ δ' ὥσπερ ἐγκαλλωπιζόμενος τῇ Ἰουδαϊκῇ διδασκαλίᾳ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ περὶ τοῦ μὴ εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ δυσσεβὲς τουτὶ καὶ ἄθεον εἰσάγει δόγμα, πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον γενέσθαι μηδὲν ἕτερον εἶναι πλὴν θεοῦ μόνου δι' ὅλου τοῦ πονηθέντος αὐτῷ συγγράμματος κατασκευάζων, ἵν' ἀποκλείσῃ τῷ υἱῷ τὴν πάρ1.17.9 οδον. ἀλλὰ καὶ σεμνύνεται αὐχῶν ἕνα θεὸν εἰδέναι· ὡς οὐχὶ καὶ ἡμῶν τοῦτο λεγόντων, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀληθῶς υἱὸν εἶναι παραδεδεγμένων, παρ' αὐτοῦ τε μεμαθηκότων ἕνα γνωρίζειν θεόν, αὐτόν τε εἶναι θεὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ πατέρα υἱοῦ τοῦ μονογενοῦς, ἑαυτοῦ δηλαδὴ ὄντος ἀληθῶς υἱοῦ πρὸ πάντων αἰώνων ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγεννημένου, καὶ οὐ μόνον λόγου κεκλημένου πρὸ τῆς ἀναλήψεως τῆς σαρκός, ὅπερ ὁ γενναῖος διορίζεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ μυρία ἕτερα· ὁ δὲ κἀν τούτῳ τῆς θείας γραφῆς καταψεύδεται, πρὸ τῆς ἐνσάρκου παρουσίας μηδὲν ἕτερον κεκλῆσθαι αὐτὸν ἀπισχυριζόμενος ἢ λόγον. 1.18.1 ἐπάκουσον γοῦν, ὡς διαβεβαιοῦται, αὐτοῖς ῥήμασιν τοῦτον γράφων τὸν τρόπον ὥστε πανταχόθεν δῆλόν ἐστιν μηδὲν ἕτερον τῇ ἀιδιότητι τοῦ λόγου ἁρμόττειν ὄνομα ἢ τοῦθ' ὅπερ ὁ ἁγιώτατος τοῦ θεοῦ μαθητὴς καὶ ἀπόστολος