34. But perhaps by saying, Thee the only, Christ severs Himself from communion and unity with God. Yes, but after the words, Thee the only true God, does He not immediately continue, and Him Whom Thou didst send, even Jesus Christ? I appeal to the sense of the reader: what must we believe Christ to be, when we are commanded to believe in Him also, as well as the Father the only true God? Or, perhaps, if the Father is the only true God, there is no room for Christ to be God. It might be so, if, because there is one God the Father, Christ were not the one Lord516    1 Cor. viii. 6: see above, c. 32.. The fact that God the Father is one, leaves Christ none the less the one Lord: and similarly the Father’s one true Godhead makes Christ none the less true God: for we can only obtain eternal life if we believe in Christ, as well as in the only true God

34. Nec repugnat quod Pater dicatur solus verus. ---Sed forte quod ait te solum, communionem atque unitatem suam a Deo separat. Separet sane, si non ad id quod ait, te solum verum Deum, continuo subjecit, et quem misisti Jesum Christum. Et sensum audientis interrogo, quid credendus sit Jesus Christus; cum ad id, quod Pater solus Deus verus credendus sit, credendus et Christus sit? Sed solus 0307A forte Pater Deus verus Christo non relinquit ut Deus sit. Non relinquat sane, si unus Deus pater Christo, ut unus sit Dominus, non reliquit (I Cor. VIII, 6). Quod si unus Deus pater Christo non adimit ut unus sit Dominus, ita solus Deus pater verus Christo Jesu non aufert ut Deus verus sit: cum ad vitae aeternae meritum hoc proficiat, ut cum credatur solus verus Deus, credatur et Christus.