XVIII.
We acknowledge that the Son and the Spirit are
consubstantial with the Father, and that the substance of the Trinity
is one,—that is, that there is one divinity according to nature,
the Father remaining unbegotten, and the Son being begotten of the
Father in a true generation, and not in a formation by will,
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and the Spirit being sent forth eternally
from the substance of the Father through the Son, with power to
sanctify the whole creation. And we further acknowledge that the
Word was made flesh, and was manifested in the flesh-movement
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received of a virgin, and did not simply
energize in a man. And those who have fellowship with men that
reject the
consubstantiality
as a doctrine foreign to the
Scriptures, and speak of any of the persons in the Trinity as created,
and separate that person from the one natural divinity, we hold as
aliens, and have fellowship with none such.
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There is one God the Father, and
there is only one divinity. But the Son also is God, as being the
true image of the one and only divinity, according to generation and
the nature which He has from the Father. There is one Lord the
Son; but in like manner there is the Spirit, who bears over
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the Son’s lordship to the creature
that is sanctified. The Son sojourned in the world, having of the
Virgin received flesh, which He filled with the Holy Spirit for the
sanctification of us all; and having given up the flesh to death, He
destroyed death through the resurrection that had in view the
resurrection of us all; and He ascended to heaven, exalting and
glorifying men in Himself; and He comes the second time to bring us
again eternal life.
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ποιήσει
ἐκ
βουλήσεως
.
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κινήσει
. [For the spiritual
κινήσις
, vol. iii.
note 6, p. 622.]
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[Evidently after the Nicene Council; the
consubstantiality
, as a phrase and test of orthodoxy, belonging
to the Nicene period.]
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διαπέμπων
.