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For who does not know that in the forty-fourth psalm the prophet proclaims in his word that Christ is God anointed by God? And again, who of those familiar with the prophecy is ignorant of Isaiah so manifestly proclaiming the divinity of the Son, in which, among other things, he also says this: that Tall men of the Sabeans will pass over to you and will be your slaves, and will follow behind you bound in manacles and will pray in you, because in you is 3.9.16 God, and there is no God besides you. For you are God. For what other God is there who has God in himself and is himself God, except the only-begotten? Let those ignorant of the prophecy say. But the interpretation of Emmanuel, and the confession of Thomas after his recognition, and the loud proclamation of John, since it is manifest even to those outside the faith, I will pass over in silence. But neither do I think it necessary to set forth with precision the words of Paul, since they are on almost everyone's lips, who calls the Lord not only God, but also great God and God over all, saying to the Romans that, "Whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is God over all, blessed forever," and writing to his own disciple Titus, "At the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ," and to Timothy he plainly cries out that "God was manifested in the flesh, was justified 3.9.17 in the Spirit." Since it has therefore been proved from all quarters that the only-begotten Son is God, how does he who says that goodness is proper to God prove that the divinity of the Son is alien to this title, and this when the Lord himself testifies to his own goodness in the parable about those hired for the vineyard? For there, when those who had toiled before were displeased with the equal portion of wages and judged the good fortune of the last ones to be their own loss, the just judge says to one of the angry ones, "Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did I not agree with you for a denarius for the day? Behold, you have what is yours. But I wish to give to this 3.9.18 last one even as to you. Do I not have the authority to do what I want with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?" And surely no one will dispute about this, that the distribution according to merit is the proper work of the judge; and all the disciples of the gospel agree that the judge is the only-begotten God. "For the Father," he says, "judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son." But they do not depart from what is written. For they say that the addition of "one" properly refers to the Father. 3.9.19 For "no one," he says, "is good, except one, that is, God." Will the truth, then, be too weak to advocate for itself? Or is it possible from many quarters and with great ease to refute this sophism of deceit? For he who said these things about the Father also says those things to the Father: "All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them." But if he says that all things of the Father are the Son's, and goodness is one of the things contemplated in the Father, then either he does not have all things, if he does not have this, and they will say that the Truth lies; or if it is impious to suspect that which is truly the Truth of uttering a falsehood, then he who says all things of the Father are his own has thereby acknowledged that he is not external to goodness either. For he who has the Father in himself and has encompassed all things of the Father, clearly also has goodness along with all things. Therefore the Son is good. 3.9.20 "But no one," they say, "is good, except one, God"; this is brought forward by our opponents. I myself do not reject the saying, yet I do not on this account deny the divinity of the Son. But he who confesses that the Lord is God has certainly also testified through this confession that goodness belongs to him. For if goodness is proper to God, and the Lord is God, then the Son is shown to be good from these premises. But, he says, the word "one" separates the Son from participation in goodness. But it is easy to show that not even this "one" separates the Father from the 3.9.21 Son. For in the case of all other things, "one" has the meaning of being uncombined, but in the case of the Father and the Son, "one" is not seen in solitude. For "I," he says, "and the Father are one." If therefore

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