32. These are the steps by which He advances
the knowledge of Himself. He teaches that He is come out from the
Father, proclaims that the Father is with Him, and testifies that He
has conquered the world. He is to be glorified of the Father, and
will glorify Him: He will use the power He has received, to give
to all flesh eternal life. Then hear the crowning point, which
concludes the whole series, And this is life eternal, that they
should know Thee, the only true God, and Him Whom Thou didst send, even
Jesus Christ Ib. xvii.
3.. Learn,
heretic, to confess, if you cannot believe, the faith which gives
eternal life. Separate, if you can, Christ from God, the Son from
the Father, God over all from the true God, the One from the
Only: if, as you say, eternal life is to believe in one only true
God without Jesus Christ. But if there is no eternal life in a
confession of the only true God, which separates Christ from Him, how,
pray, can Christ be separated from the true God for our faith, when He
is not separable for our salvation?