39. Jeremiah also, a prophet equally inspired, has taught that God the Only-begotten is of a nature one with that of God the Father. His words are:—This is our God, and there shall be none other likened unto Him, Who hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob His servant, and to Israel His beloved. Afterward He was seen upon earth, and dwelt among men266    Baruch iii. 35–37.. Why try to transform the Son of God into a second God? Learn to recognise and to confess the One True God. No second God is likened to Christ, and so can claim to be God. He is God from God by nature and by birth, for the Source of His Godhead is God. And, again, He is not a second God, for no other is likened unto Him; the truth that is in Him is nothing else than the truth of God. Why link together, in pretended devotion to the unity of God, true and false, base and genuine, unlike and unlike? The Father is God and the Son is God. God is in God; beside Him there is no God, and none other is likened unto Him so as to be God. If in these Two you shall recognise the Unity, instead of the solitude, of God, you will share the Church’s faith, which confesses the Father in the Son. But if, in ignorance of the heavenly mystery, you insist that God is One in order to enforce the doctrine of His isolation, then you are a stranger to the knowledge of God, for you deny that God is in God.

39. Ex Jeremia idem evincitur.---Jeremias vero non dispari prophetiae virtute, indiscretae a Deo patre naturae unigenitum esse Deum ita docuit, dicens: Hic Deus noster est, et non deputabitur alter ad eum. Qui invenit omnem vitam scientiae, et dedit 0156C eam Jacob puero suo, et Israel dilecto suo. Post haec supra terram visus est, et inter homines conversatus est (Baruc. III, 36). Quid alium Deum in filio Dei Deo haeretice supponis? Disce unum Deum verum intelligere et confiteri. Non alius Deus ad Christum deputatur ut Deus sit. Deus est ex natura, ex nativitate, ex Deo. Quod enim Deus est, ex Deo est, non etiam Deus alius est. Alius enim ad eum non deputatur; quia non est in eo alia praeter quam quae Dei est veritas. Quid verum et non verum, quid degenerem et nobilem, quid diversum et diversum sub unius Dei ementita religione componis? Deus 0157A est pater, Deus est et filius. In Deo Deus est; praeter eum Deus non est, non alter ad eum deputatur ut Deus sit. In his si unum magis quam solitarium Deum intelliges; Ecclesiae religionem profiteberis, quae Patrem in Filio confitetur. Sin vero unum Deum, ad solitarii significationem, sacramenti coelestis ignarus obtendis; extra cognitionem Dei es, Deum in Deo esse non confitens.