Chapter VI.—Names of God and of Christ, their meaning and power.
But to the Father of all, who is unbegotten, there is no name given. For by whatever
name He be called, He has as His elder the person who gives Him the name. But these words,
Father, and God, and Creator, and Lord, and Master, are not names, but appellations derived
from His good deeds and functions. And His Son, who alone is properly called Son, the
Word, who also was with Him and was begotten before the works, when at first He created
and arranged all things by Him, is called Christ, in reference to His being anointed and
God’s ordering all things through Him; this name itself also containing an unknown signi-
ficance; as also the appellation “God” is not a name, but an opinion implanted in the nature
of men of a thing that can hardly be explained. But “Jesus,” His name as man and Saviour,
has also significance. For He was made man also, as we before said, having been conceived
according to the will of God the Father, for the sake of believing men, and for the destruction
of the demons. And now you can learn this from what is under your own observation. For
numberless demoniacs throughout the whole world, and in your city, many of our Christian
men exorcising them in the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
have healed and do heal, rendering helpless and driving the possessing devils out of the
men, though they could not be cured by all the other exorcists, and those who used incant-
ations and drugs.
Chapter VI.—Names of God and of Christ, their meaning and power.
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Chapter VI.—Names of God and of Christ, their meaning and power.