14.  We believe then In the Only-Begotten Son of God, Who Was Begotten of the Father Very God.  For the True God begetteth not a false god, as we have said, nor did He deliberate and afterwards beget See above, § 8, note 3.; but He begat eternally, and much more swiftly than our words or thoughts:  for we speaking in time, consume time; but in the case of the Divine Power, the generation is timeless.  And as I have often said, He did not bring forth the Son from non-existence into being, nor take the non-existent into sonship Athan. (c. Arian. I. ix. 31) “speaking against the Lord, ‘He is of nothing,’ and ‘He was not before His generation.’”:  but the Father, being Eternal, eternally and ineffably begat One Only Son, who has no brother.  Nor are there two first principles; but the Father is the head of the Son 1 Cor. xi. 3.; the beginning is One.  For the Father begot the Son Very God, called Emmanuel; and Emmanuel being interpreted is, God with us Matt. i. 23..