Chapter II.—Unity of the three divine persons. There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For “the Lord thy God,” saith [the Scripture], “is one Lord.”824 And again, “Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father?825 And there is also one Son, God the Word. For “the only-begotten Son,” saith [the Scripture], “who is in the bosom of the Father.”826 And again, “One Lord Jesus Christ.”827 And in an- other place, “What is His name, or what His Son’s name, that we may know?”828 And there is also one Paraclete.829 For “there is also,” saith [the Scripture], “one Spirit,”830 since “we have been called in one hope of our calling.”831 And again, “We have drunk of one Spirit,”832 with what follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] “worketh one and the self-same Spirit.”833 There are not then either three Fathers,834 or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to “baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,”835 not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour. 824 Deut. vi. 4; Mark xii. 29. 825 Mal. ii. 10. 826 John i. 18. 827 1 Cor. viii. 6. 828 Prov. xxx. 4. 829 i.e., “Advocate” or “Comforter;” comp. John xiv. 16. 830 Eph. iv. 4. 831 1 Cor. xii. 13. 832 Eph. iv. 4. 833 1 Cor. xii. 11. 834 Comp. Athanasian Creed. 835 Matt. xxviii. 19. Chapter II.—Unity of the three divine persons. 318 Chapter II.—Unity of the three divine persons.