47. In all things the blessed Apostle preserves the unchangeable teaching of the Gospel faith. The Lord Jesus Christ is proclaimed as God in such wise that neither does the Apostle’s faith, by calling Him a God of a different order, fall away to the confession of two Gods, nor by making God the Son inseparable from the Father does it leave an opening for the unholy doctrine of a single and solitary God. For when he says, in the form of God and in the glory of the Father the Apostle neither teaches that They differ one from another, nor allows us to think of Him as not existing. For He Who is in the form of God neither ends by becoming another God nor Himself loses His Godhead: for He cannot be severed from the form of God since He exists in it, nor is He, Who is in the form of God, not God Just as He Who is in the glory of God cannot be aught else than God, and, since He is God in the glory of God, cannot be proclaimed as another god and one different from the true God, seeing that by reason of the fact that He is in the glory of God He possesses naturally from Him in Whose glory He is, the property of divinity.

47. Deus unus, non unicus.---Tenet in omnibus beatus Apostolus fidei evangelicae indemutabilem praedicationem, 247 ita Dominum Jesum Christum Deum praedicans, ut neque per alterius generis Deum in deos duos fides apostolica depereat, neque inseparabilis a Patre Filius Deus unici ac singularis Dei praedicandi occasionem impiam praebeat. Dicens enim, in forma Dei, et in gloria Dei patris, neque differre docuit, neque non exsistentem nos existimare permisit. Nam qui in forma Dei est, neque in alterum Deum proficit, neque etiam ipse non Deus 0271B est: quia nec separari potest a Dei forma, cum in ea sit; nec qui in Dei est forma, non Deus est. Sicut qui in gloria Dei est, non potest aliud esse quam Deus est; et dum in gloria Dei Deus est, alterius Dei atque a Deo diversi non habet praedicationem; quia per id, quod in gloria Dei est, ex eo in cujus gloria est, habet in se naturale quod Deus est.