40. Thrust out now your quivering and hissing
tongues, ye vipers of heresy, whether it be thou Sabellius or thou
Photinus, or ye who now preach that the Only-begotten God is a
creature. Whosoever denies the Son shall hear of one God the
Father, because inasmuch as a father becomes a father only by having a
son, this name Father necessarily connotes the existence of the
Son. And again, let him who takes away from the Son the unity of
an identical nature, acknowledge one Lord Jesus Christ. For
unless through unity of the Spirit He is one Lord room will not be left
for God the Father to be Lord. Again, let him who holds the Son
to have become Son in time and by His Incarnation, learn that through
Him are all things and we through Him, and that His timeless Infinity
was creating all things before time was. And meanwhile let him
read again that there is one hope of our calling, and one baptism, and
one faith; if, after that, he oppose himself to the preaching of the
Apostle, he, being accursed because he framed strange doctrines of his
own device, is neither called nor baptized nor believing; because in
one God the Father and in one Lord Jesus Christ there lies the one
faith of one hope and baptism. And no alien doctrine can boast
that it has a place among the truths which belong to one God and Lord
and hope and baptism and faith.