48. But there is no danger that the one faith will cease to be such through diversity in its preaching. The Evangelist had taught that our Lord said, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also440    St. John xiv. 9.. But has Paul, the teacher of the Gentiles, forgotten or kept back the meaning of the Lord’s words, when he says, Who is the image of the invisible God441    Col. i. 15.? I ask whether He is the visible likeness of the invisible God, and whether the infinite God can also be presented to view under the likeness of a finite form? For a likeness must needs repeat the form of that of which it is the likeness. Let those, however, who will have a nature of a different sort in the Son determine what sort of likeness of the invisible God they wish the Son to be. Is it a bodily likeness exposed to the gaze, and moving from place to place with human gait and motion? Nay, but let them remember that according to the Gospels and the Prophets both Christ is a Spirit and God is a Spirit. If they confine this Christ the Spirit within the bounds of shape and body, such a corporeal Christ will not be the likeness of the invisible God, nor will a finite limitation represent that which is infinite.

48. Christus ut imago Dei, non alterius est naturae. ---Non periclitatur, per plures praedicationes fides una, ne una sit. Evangelista enim dictum a Domino docuerat, Qui me vidit, vidit et Patrem (Joan. XIV, 9). Sed numquid doctor gentium Paulus virtutem dicti dominici aut ignoravit, aut tacuit, dicens: Qui est imago Dei invisibilis (Coloss. I, 15)? Interrogo utrum visibilis imago est invisibilis Dei: et utrum 0271C infinitus Deus per formae circumscriptae imaginem 0272A coimaginari possit ad speciem? Imago enim formam necesse est ejus reddat, cujus et imago est. Qui volunt autem alterius generis in Filio esse naturam, constituant cujusmodi Filium imaginem esse invisibilis Dei velint. Anne corpoream, et contemplabilem, et ex locis in loca motu incessuque circumvagam? Meminerint tamen , secundum Evangelia et prophetas, et Christum spiritum et Deum spiritum. Qui 248 si circumscribent hunc spiritum Christum formabili et corporali modo; non erit invisibilis Dei imago corporeus, nec indefiniti species definita moderatio.