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According to Luke; for he also wrote the Acts of the Apostles. That, in it, it was written both concerning the Father, and concerning his only-begotten Son thus. Concerning the Father, Hosea: “And God said to him,” he says, “Call her name, Not-pitied; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly oppose them. But I will have mercy on the sons of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God.” In the song of Hannah: “My heart has been strengthened in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God.” David in Psalm 107: “Will not you, O God, go out with our armies? Give us help from trouble, for vain is the salvation of man. In God we shall do valiantly, and he shall bring to nothing those who afflict us;” and again: “By my God I will leap over a wall;” and again: “In God I will praise my words.” Paul to the Colossians: “Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light; who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom 39.936 of the Son of his love; in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins; and again: “Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ;” and again: “But if you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God;” and elsewhere: “One God, through whom are all things, and we for him;” and again: “In God who created all things;” and again: “Now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you;” and again: “Pray in God;” and again: “He that does truth comes to the light, that it may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” Concerning the Son, Paul to the Colossians: “For in him were all things created, in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible; whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created through him and for him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.” To the Corinthians in the first Epistle: “But you were washed, but you were justified, but you were sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God;” and in the second: “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the fragrance of his knowledge through us;” and again: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature;” And to the Romans: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death;” to the same: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” And to the Hebrews: “God, who in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by his Son.” Peter in an Epistle: “But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus”

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κατὰ Λουκᾶν· αὐτὸς γὰρ καὶ τὰς ἀποστολικὰς Πράξεις συνέγραψεν. Ὅτι, ἐν ᾧ, ἐγράφη περί τε τοῦ Πατρὸς, περί τε τοῦ μονογενοῦς αὐτοῦ Υἱοῦ οὑτωσί. Περὶ τοῦ Πατρὸς, Ὠσιέ· «Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ,» φησὶν, «ὁ Θεός· Κάλεσον τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Οὐκ ἠλεημένη· διότι οὐ μὴ προσθήσω ἔτι ἐλεῆσαι τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, ἀλλ' ἢ ἀντιτασσόμενος ἀντιτάξομαι αὐτοῖς· τοὺς δὲ υἱοὺς Ἰούδα ἐλεήσω, καὶ σώσω αὐτοὺς ἐν Κυρίῳ Θεῷ αὐτῶν.» Ἐν τῇ ᾠδῇ Ἄννης· «Ἐστερεώθη ἡ καρδία μου ἐν Κυρίῳ, ὑψώθη κέρας μου ἐν Θεῷ μου.» ∆αυῒδ ἐν ψαλμῷ ρζʹ· «Καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσῃ, ὁ Θεὸς, ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν ἡμῶν; ∆ὸς ἡμῖν βοήθειαν ἐκ θλίψεως, καὶ ματαία σωτηρία ἀνθρώπου. Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ποιήσωμεν δύναμιν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐξουδενώσει τοὺς θλίβοντας ἡμᾶς·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ὑπερβήσομαι τεῖχος·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ἐπαινέσω τοὺς λόγους μου.» Παῦλος πρὸς Κολοσσαεῖς· «Εὐχαριστοῦντες τῷ Πατρὶ, τῷ ἱκανώσαντι ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν μερίδα τοῦ κλήρου τῶν ἁγίων ἐν τῷ φωτί· ὃς ἐῤῥύσατο ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ σκότους, καὶ μετέστησεν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν 39.936 τοῦ Υἱοῦ τῆς ἀγάπης αὐτοῦ· ἐν ᾧ ἔχομεν τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν, τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν· καὶ πάλιν· «Παῦλος, καὶ Σιλουανὸς, καὶ Τιμόθεος τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεσσαλονικέων ἐν Θεῷ Πατρὶ ἡμῶν, καὶ Κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ·» καὶ πάλιν· «Εἰ δὲ σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ, καὶ ἐπαναπαύῃ νόμῳ, καὶ καυχᾶσαι ἐν τῷ Θεῷ·» καὶ ἑτέρωθι· «Εἷς Θεὸς, δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα, καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς αὐτόν·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι·» αὖθίς τε· «Ἤδη ποτὲ εὐοδωθήσομαι ἐν τῷ θελήματι τοῦ θεοῦ ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς·» καὶ πάλιν· «Εὔχεσθε ἐν Θεῷ·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα φανερωθῇ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐν Θεῷ εἰσιν εἰργασμένα.» Περὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ, Παῦλος Κολοσσαεῦσι μέν· «Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ ἐκτίσθη τὰ πάντα ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς, τὰ ὁρατὰ καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα· εἴτε θρόνοι, εἴτε κυριότητες, εἴτε ἀρχαὶ, εἴτε ἐξουσίαι, τὰ πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἐκτίσθη· καὶ αὐτός ἐστι πρὸ πάντων, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐν αὐτῷ συνέστηκεν.» Κορινθίοις μὲν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ Ἐπιστολῇ· «Ἀλλὰἀπελούσασθε, ἀλλ' ἐδικαιώθητε, ἀλλὰ ἡγιάσθητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν·» ἐν δὲ τῇ δευτέρᾳ· «Τῷ δὲ Θεῷ χάρις, τῷ πάντοτε θριαμβεύοντι ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ, καὶ τὴν ὀσμὴν τῆς γνώσεως αὐτοῦ φανεροῦντι δι' ἡμῶν·» καὶ πάλιν· «Ὥστε εἴ τις ἐν Χριστῷ, καινὴ κτίσις·» Ῥωμαίοις δέ· «Ὁ γὰρ νόμοςτοῦ Πνεύματος τῆς ζωῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἠλευθέρωσέν με ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τῆς ἁμαρτίας καὶ τοῦ θανάτου·» τοῖς αὐτοῖς· «Πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον, καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ, δικαιούμενοι δωρεὰν τῇ αὐτοῦ χάριτι διὰ τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ» Ἑβραίοις δέ· «Πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ Θεὸς λαλήσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις, ἐπ' ἐσχάτων ἡμερῶν τούτων ἐλάλησεν ἡμῖν ἐν Υἱῷ.» Πέτρος ἐν Ἐπιστολῇ· «Ὁ δὲ Θεὸς πάσης χάριτος, ὁ καλέσας ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν αἰώνιον αὐτοῦ δόξαν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ»

ΚΕΦ. Κ∆ʹ. Ἔτι καὶ οἱ οἰήσει σοφοὶ καὶ πάσης ἀβελτηρίας ἐπέκεινα Ἕλληνες,

οἱ πολυθεΐας δόξῃ καταμεθύοντες, καὶ ἑαυτοὺς πείθοντες, ὅτιπερ μόνοι εἰσὶν πολυμα 39.937 θεῖς, ἀμαθαίνοντες δὲ περὶ τὸ καίριον παρὰ πάντας, καὶ οὐδεμίαν ἀκριβῆ περὶ τῆς ἐν μονάδι μακαρίας Τριάδος εἴδησιν ἔχοντες, αὐτῶν παραπλησίως τῇ λεγούσῃ Γραφῇ, «Ἀσεβὴς ἐμπεσὼν εἰς βάθος κακῶν, καταφρονεῖ» δι' ἐθελοακρότητα δεισιδαιμονίας δῆθεν καὶ περιεργίας, εἰς βεβαίωσιν τῆς πολυθεΐας, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀθεΐας αὐτῶν ἐπερείδονται κακῶς τῇ προλεχθείσῃ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου φωνῇ· «Εἴ τινές εἰσι λεγόμενοι θεοὶ, εἴτε ἐν οὐρανῷ, εἴτε ἐπὶ γῆς· ὥσπερ εἰσὶ θεοὶ πολλοὶ, καὶ κύριοι πολλοί·» καὶ τῇ προφητικῇ, τῇ φασκούσῃ· «Θεοὺς οὐ κακολογήσεις·» καὶ, «Θεὸς θεῶν Κύριος ἐλάλησεν·» οὐκ ἔτι βλέποντες δύο ταῦτα· ἓν μὲν, ὅτι ὁ Ἀπόστολος ἔγραψε πρὸ τοῦ μνησθέντος ῥητοῦ· «Οὐδεὶς Θεὸς, εἰ μὴ εἷς·» ἕτερον δὲ, ὅτι