5. “We confess one God, alone unmade, alone eternal, alone unoriginate, alone possessing immortality, alone good, alone mighty, Creator, Ordainer and Disposer of all things, unchangeable and unalterable, righteous and good, of the Law and the Prophets and the New Testament. We believe that this God gave birth to the Only-begotten Son before all worlds, through Whom He made the world and all things, that He gave birth to Him not in semblance, but in truth, following His own will, so that He is unchangeable and unalterable, God’s perfect Creature, but not as one of His other creatures, His Handiwork, but not as His other works; not, as Valentinus maintained, that the Son is a development of the Father, nor, as Manichæus has declared of the Son, a consubstantial part of the Father, nor, as Sabellius, who makes two out of One, Son and Father at once, nor, as Hieracas, a light from a light, or a lamp with two flames, nor, as if He was previously in being and afterwards born, or created afresh, to be a Son, a notion often condemned by thyself, blessed Pope, publicly in the Church, and in the assembly of the brethren. But, as we have affirmed, we believe that He was created by the will of God before times and worlds, and has His life and existence from the Father, Who gave Him to share His own glorious perfections. For, when the Father gave to Him the inheritance of all things, He did not thereby deprive Himself of attributes which are His without origination, He being the source of all things.

5. Arii et asseclarum ejus ad Alexandrum epistola. ---«Novimus unum Deum, solum infectum, solum 0160B sempiternum, solum sine initio, solum immortalitatem habentem, solum optimum, solum potentem, omnium creatorem, ordinatorem et dispositorem inconvertibilem, immutabilem, justum et optimum legis et prophetarum et novi Testamenti. Hunc Deum generasse filium unigenitum ante omnia saecula, per quem et saeculum et omnia fecit. Natum autem non putative, sed vere obsecutum voluntati suae, immutabilem et inconvertibilem, creaturam Dei perfectam, sed non sicuti unum de creaturis; facturam, sed non sicuti caeterae facturae; nec ut Valentinus prolationem Natum Patris commentatus est; nec sicut Manichaeus partem unius substantiae 135 Patris Natum exposuit; nec sicuti Sabellius, qui unionem dividit, ipsum dixit Filium quem et Patrem; sed nec 0160C sicuti Hieracas lucernam de lucerna, vel lampadem in duas partes; nec qui fuit ante, postmodum natum vel supercreatum in filium, sicuti et tu ipse, beatissime papa, media in ecclesia et in consessu frequenter eos qui talia introducunt renuisti: sed sicuti diximus, voluntate Dei ante tempora et saecula creatum, et vivere et esse accipiens a Patre, et glorias ei consubsistente Patre. Neque enim Pater dans ei omnium haereditatem, fraudavit semetipsum ab his quae non facta ab ipso habentur: fons est autem omnium.