41. So then the one faith is, to confess the
Father in the Son and the Son in the Father through the unity of an
indivisible nature, not confused but inseparable, not intermingled but
identical, not conjoined but coexisting, not incomplete but
perfect. For there is birth not separation, there is a Son not an
adoption; and He is God, not a creature. Neither is He a God of a
different kind, but the Father and Son are one: for the nature
was not altered by birth so as to be alien from the property of its
original. So the Apostle holds the faith of the Son abiding in
the Father and the Father in the Son when he proclaims that for him
there is one God the Father and one Lord Christ, since in Christ the
Lord there was also God, and in God the Father there was also Lord, and
They Two are that unity which is God, and They Two are also that unity
which is the Lord, for reason indicates that there must be something
imperfect in God unless He be Lord, and in the Lord unless He were
God. And so since Both are one, and Both are implied under either
name, and neither exists apart from the unity, the Apostle has not gone
beyond the preaching of the Gospel in his teaching, nor does Christ
when He speaks in Paul differ from the words which He spoke while
abiding in the world in bodily form.