35. Come, heretic, what will your fatuous doctrine instruct us to believe of Christ; Christ, Who dispenses eternal life, Who is glorified of, and glorifies, the Father, Who overcame the world, Who, deserted, is not alone, but has the Father with Him, Who came out from God, and came from the Father? He is born with such divine powers; what of the nature and reality of God will you allow Him? It is in vain that we believe in the only true God the Father, unless we believe also in Him, Whom He sent, even Jesus Christ. Why do you hesitate? Tell us, what is Christ to be confessed? You deny what has been written: what is left, but to believe what has not been written? O unhappy wilfulness! O falsehood striving against the truth! Christ is united in belief and confession with the only true God the Father: what faith is it, pray, to deny Him to be true God, and to call Him a creature, when it is no faith to believe in the only true God without Christ? But you are narrow, heretic, and unable to receive the Holy Spirit. The sense of the heavenly words escapes you; stung with the asp’s poison of error, you forget that Christ is to be confessed true God in the faith of the only true God, if we would obtain eternal life.

35. Nec locus est, ut Christus aliud a Deo credatur. ---Quid nunc, rogo, stultitiae tuae sensu Christo deputas, haeretice, ut esse credatur; et Christo, qui vitam aeternam tribuit, qui honorificandus a Patre Patrem honorificavit, qui mundum vicit, qui solus relinquendus non solus est, sed secum habet 0307B Patrem, qui a Deo exivit atque a Patre venit? Quid ei in tantis Dei virtutibus nato naturae ac veritatis imperties? Solum enim verum Deum patrem inutiliter 284 credimus, nisi credamus et quem misit Jesum Christum. Quid haeres? quid Christus confitendus sit doce. Nam qui quae scripta sunt negas, quid restat, nisi ut quae non scripta sunt credas? O infelix voluntas, et veritati obnitens falsitas! Cum in fide et confessione veri Dei patris Christus unitus est, rogo qua fide verus Deus negatus creatura esse dicetur, cum fides nulla sit in solum verum Deum credidisse sine Christo? Sed angustum te, haeretice, et divini Spiritus incapacem, coelestium dictorum non adit sensus: et vipereo inspiratus errore, Christum verum Deum nescis in 0307C fide solius veri Dei ad vitae aeternitatem confitendum.