Contents of Book X.

§1. The tenth book discusses the unattainable and incomprehensible character of the enquiry into entities. And herein he strikingly sets forth the points concerning the nature and formation of the ant, and the passage in the Gospel, “I am the door” and “the way,” and also discusses the attribution and interpretation of the Divine names, and the episode of the children of Benjamin.

§2. He then wonderfully displays the Eternal Life, which is Christ, to those who confess Him not, and applies to them the mournful lamentation of Jeremiah over Jehoiakim, as being closely allied to Montanus and Sabellius.

§3. He then shows the eternity of the Son’s generation, and the inseparable identity of His essence with Him that begat Him, and likens the folly of Eunomius to children playing with sand.

§4. After this he shows that the Son, who truly is, and is in the bosom of the Father, is simple and uncompounded, and that, He Who redeemed us from bondage is not under dominion of the Father, nor in a state of slavery: and that otherwise not He alone, but also the Father Who is in the Son and is One with Him, must be a slave; and that the word “being” is formed from the word to “be.” And having excellently and notably discussed all these matters, he concludes the book.

αʹ. Ὁ ιʹ δὲ λόγος τὸ ἀνέφικτον καὶ ἀκατάληπτον τῆς τῶν ὄντων εὑρέσεως διεξέρχεται. ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς φύσεως καὶ διαπλάσεως τοῦ μύρμηκος παραδόξως ἐκτίθεται, καὶ τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν ῥῆσιν Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα καὶ ἡ ὁδός, τῶν τε θείων ὀνομάτων τὰς προσηγορίας καὶ ἑρμηνείας τήν τε τῶν υἱῶν Βενιαμὶν ἱστορίαν διέξεισιν.
βʹ. Εἶτα τὴν αἰώνιον ζωὴν τουτέστι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῖς μὴ ὁμολογοῦσι θαυμαστῶς ὑπέδειξε καὶ θρῆνον αὐτοῖς τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἰεχονίᾳ τοῦ Ἰερεμίου ἐξετραγῴδησε πρὸς Μοντανὸν καὶ Σαβέλλιον οἰκείως ἔχουσιν.
γʹ. Ἔπειτα τὸ ἀΐδιον τῆς τοῦ υἱοῦ γεννήσεως καὶ τὸ ταὐτὸν τῆς οὐσίας τῷ γεννήσαντι ἀχώριστον δείκνυσι, τὸ δὲ τοῦ Εὐνομίου ἀνόητον τοῖς κατὰ ψαμάθων παίζουσιν ἀπεικάζει νηπίοις.
δʹ. Μετὰ τοῦτο τὸν κυρίως ὄντα υἱὸν καὶ ἐν τοῖς κόλποις ὄντα τοῦ πατρὸς ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἀσύνθετον καὶ μὴ κυριευόμενον παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς μήτε δουλεύοντα τὸν ἡμᾶς τῆς δουλείας ἀπαλλάξαντα δείκνυσιν: καὶ εἰ μὴ τοῦτο, οὐκ αὐτὸς μόνος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ὡς ἐν τῷ υἱῷ ὢν καὶ ἓν ὢν δοῦλος ἔσται: ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ εἶναι ἡ τοῦ ὄντος ἐπωνυμία παρεσχημάτισται. πάντα δὲ ταῦτα γενναίως καὶ θαυμαστῶς διεξετάσας τὸν λόγον πληροῖ.