SANCTI HILARII LIBER DE SYNODIS, SEU DE FIDE ORIENTALIUM.
41. Ut essentiae nomine, ita sunt unum essentiae genere. 0513C
58. Filius ex Dei substantia, non ut creaturae ex voluntate. 0520C
71. Et pie dici potest, et pie taceri. ---Non est, 0527B
78. Orientalium laus ob haeresim coercitam. ---O 0530C 0531A 0531B
82. Quo sensu judicio communi damnetur. ---Sed 0535A
83. Quod pie a Nicaena synodo susceptum, non debeat 0535B improbari. 0535C
88. Holy brethren, I understand by ὁμοούσιον God of God, not of an essence that is unlike, not divided but born, and that the Son has a birth which is unique, of the substance of the unborn God, that He is begotten yet co-eternal and wholly like the Father. I believed this before I knew the word ὁμοούσιον but it greatly helped my belief. Why do you condemn my faith when I express it by ὁμοούσιον while you cannot disapprove it when expressed by ὁμοιούσιον? For you condemn my faith, or rather your own, when you condemn its verbal equivalent. Do others misunderstand it? Let us join in condemning the misunderstanding, but not deprive our faith of its security. Do you think we must subscribe to the Samosatene Council to prevent any one from using ὁμοούσιον in the sense of Paul of Samosata? Then let us also subscribe to the Council of Nicæa, so that the Arians may not impugn the word. Have we to fear that ὁμοιούσιον does not imply the same belief as ὁμοούσιον? Let us decree that there is no difference between being of one or of a similar substance. The word ὁμοούσιον can be understood in a wrong sense. Let us prove that it can be understood in a very good sense. We hold one and the same sacred truth. I beseech you that we should agree that this truth, which is one and the same, should be regarded as sacred. Forgive me, brethren, as I have so often asked you to do. You are not Arians: why should you be thought to be Arians by denying the ὁμοούσιον?
88. Homousion quid intelligat Hilarius. Adversus homousion scrupuli levantur.---Homousion, sanctissimi viri, intelligo ex Deo Deum, non dissimilis essentiae, non divisum, sed natum, et ex innascibilis Dei substantia congenitam in Filio, secundum similitudinem, unigenitam nativitatem. Ita me antea intelligentem, non mediocriter ad id confirmavit homousion. Quid fidem meam in homousion damnas, quam per homoeusii professionem non potes non probare? Damnas enim fidem meam, vel potius tuam, cum damnas intelligentiam ejus in nomine. Sed male alius intelligit? Damnemus in commune vitiosam 0540B intelligentiam, non auferamus fidei securitatem. Synodo Samosatenae subscribendum putas, ne secundum Samosateni intelligentiam quisquam sibi usurpet homousion? Subscribamus et Nicaeae 515 synodo, ne homousion improbent Ariani. Sed verendum est, ne secundum fidem non homoeusion 0541A significare videatur homousion? Decernatur nihil differre, unius et similis esse substantiae. Sed homousion potest male intelligi? Constituatur qualiter bene possit intelligi. Unum atque idem pie sapimus, rogo ut unum atque idem quod sapimus, pium inter nos esse velimus. Date veniam, Fratres, quam frequenter poposci: Ariani non estis: cur negando homoeusion censemini Ariani?