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obviously also the Word that is with him, so that if God is limited, the Word is also certainly within a limit, but if the infinity of God transcends the limit, neither is the 3.2.21 Word contemplated with him defined by limits and measures. For one would not say that the Word is not contemplated with the whole divinity of the Father, so that one part of God might not be in the Word, while the other would be shown to be bare of the Word. Again the spiritual voice of John, again the evangelist nurses the hearing of the infants with his proclamation; we have not yet grown so much in the first utterances, as to remain unfallen after hearing 'Son' because of the 3.2.22 usual signification. For this reason, again the preacher, crying out in the third utterance, still proclaimed 'Word', not 'Son', saying And the Word was God. First he said in what he was, then with whom he was, now he says what he is, completing the purpose of the proclamation through the third repetition. For not some word, he says, of those commonly understood, but God I proclaim in the title of 'Word'; for this Word, who was in the beginning and was with God, was not something other than 3.2.23 God, but was himself also God. And continuously through repetition, intensifying his grand utterances, the preacher says this God, the one previously revealed in the proclamation, this one is he through whom all things came to be, and is life and the light of men and the true light shining in darkness and not obscured by the darkness, coming to his own and not being received by his own, and becoming flesh and through the flesh dwelling in human nature. And having gone through so many and such things, then he says 'Father' and names him 'Only-begotten', when there was no longer any danger for the one purified by so many things to slip into some defiled thought from the meaning of 'Father'. For we have seen, he says, his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from a Father. 3.2.24 Say to the evangelist in response to these things, say these wise things of yours, Eunomius, how do you call him Father and how Only-begotten with reference to the Word, since every bodily generation is effected through passion? Truth itself will certainly answer you on his behalf, that the mystery of theology is one thing, and the natural science of transient bodies is another. These are separated from each other by a great interval. Why do you join through your argument things that cannot be mixed? How with a defiling argument do you pollute the purity of the divine generation? How do you reason about the incorporeal through the passions of the body? Do not explain things above from things below. 3.2.25 I proclaim the Lord Son of God, because the gospel from heaven also proclaimed this through the bright cloud; For this, it says, is my beloved Son. But not because I was taught 'Son', was I dragged down by the name to the meanings of 'son' here, but I know it from the Father, and I do not know it from passion. And I will add this to what has been said, that I know of a certain bodily birth that is pure of passion, so that in this too the natural science of bodily generation of Eunomius may be refuted as false, if indeed a birth of a body were found that did not admit 3.2.26 passion. For say, did the Word become flesh or not? You would not say that he did not become. He became, therefore, and there is no one who denies it. How then was God manifested in the flesh? Through birth, you will certainly say. Having mentioned what sort of birth then? Or is it not clear that it was of the virgin, and that what was born in her was of the Holy Spirit, and that the days were fulfilled for her to give birth, and she gave birth, and incorruptibility was nonetheless preserved along with 3.2.27 the birth. Then do you believe that the birth from a woman is pure of passion—if indeed you do believe—but you do not accept the divine and undefiled birth from the Father, so that you might not think of passion concerning the generation? But I know clearly that it is not passion that is to be avoided by him in his doctrine, which he does not even see in the first place in the divine and undefiled nature; but so that the maker of all creation might be considered part of creation, he contrives these things for the denial of the only-begotten God, using a feigned piety about passion as his accomplice. 3.2.28 And this he shows most clearly through the things with which he contends against what has been said, saying 20to have been begotten by

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