1. Some others are secretly introducing another doctrine, who have become disciples of one Noetus, who was a native of Smyrna, (and) lived not very lo

 2. Now they seek to exhibit the foundation for their dogma by citing the word in the law, “I am the God of your fathers: ye shall have no other gods b

 3. In this way, then, they choose to set forth these things, and they make use only of one class of passages just in the same one-sided manner that T

 4. Let us, as I said, see how he is confuted, and then let us set forth the truth. Now he quotes the words, “Egypt has laboured, and the merchandise o

 5. But what is meant, says he, in the other passage: “This is God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of Him?” That said he righ

 6. Let us look next at the apostle’s word: “Whose are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.

 7. If, again, he allege His own word when He said, “I and the Father are one,” let him attend to the fact, and understand that He did not say, “I and

 8. Many other passages, or rather all of them, attest the truth. A man, therefore, even though he will it not, is compelled to acknowledge God the Fat

 9. There is, brethren, one God, the knowledge of whom we gain from the Holy Scriptures, and from no other source. For just as a man, if he wishes to b

 10. God, subsisting alone, and having nothing contemporaneous with Himself, determined to create the world. And conceiving the world in mind, and will

 11. And thus there appeared another beside Himself. But when I say another ,

 12. Acting then in these (prophets), the Word spoke of Himself. For already He became His own herald, and showed that the Word would be manifested amo

 13. Now Jeremiah says, “Who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived His Word?”

 14. These things then, brethren, are declared by the Scriptures. And the blessed John, in the testimony of his Gospel, gives us an account of this eco

 15. But some one will say to me, You adduce a thing strange to me, when you call the Son the Word. For John indeed speaks of the Word, but it is by a

 16. And these indeed are testimonies bearing on the incarnation of the Word and there are also very many others. But let us also look at the subject

 17.  These testimonies are sufficient for the believing who study truth, and the unbelieving credit no testimony. For the Holy Spirit, indeed, in the

 18. Thus then, too, though demonstrated as God, He does not refuse the conditions proper to Him as man,

13. Now Jeremiah says, “Who hath stood in the counsel66    ὑποστήματι, foundation. Victor reads ἐν τῇ ὑποστάσει, in the substance, nature; Symmachus has ἐν τῇ ὁμιλίᾳ, in the fellowship. of the Lord, and hath perceived His Word?”67    Jer. xxiii. 18. But the Word of God alone is visible, while the word of man is audible. When he speaks of seeing the Word, I must believe that this visible (Word) has been sent. And there was none other (sent) but the Word. And that He was sent Peter testifies, when he says to the centurion Cornelius: “God sent His Word unto the children of Israel by the preaching of Jesus Christ. This is the God who is Lord of all.”68    Acts x. 36. If, then, the Word is sent by Jesus Christ, the will69    τὸ θέλημα. Many of the patristic theologians called the Son the Father’s βούλησις or θέλημα. See the passages in Petavius, De S. S. Trinitate, lib. vi. c. 8, § 21, and vii. 12, § 12. [Dubious.] of the Father is Jesus Christ.

[13] ἴδωμεν οὖν τὰ γεγραμμένα. ὅτι μὲν ἐμφανὴς ὁ Λόγος ἐσόμενος ἐκηρύσσετο, καὶ Ἱερεμίας λέγει, Τίς ἔστη ἐν ὑποστήματι Κυρίου καὶ εἶδεν τὸν Λόγον αὐτοῦ; Λόγος δὲ Θεοῦ μόνος ὁρατός, ἀνθρώπου δὲ ἀκουστός. ὅπου ὁρᾶν τὸν Λόγον λέγει, ἀνάγκην ἔχω πιστεύειν τὸν ὁρατὸν τοῦτον ἀπεσταλμένον. ὁ δὲ ἀπεσταλμένος οὐκ ἄλλος ἦν ἀλλ' ἢ ὁ Λόγος. ὅτι δὲ ἀπεστάλθη, μαρτυρεῖ Πέτρος πρὸς τὸν ἑκατόνταρχον Κορνήλιον λέγων, Ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Λόγον αὐτοῦ τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ διὰ κηρύγματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ: οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ὁ πάντων Κύριος. εἰ δὲ οὖν Λόγος ἀποστέλλεται διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Πατρός ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός.