3. Let the Jews, however, since they so
will, suffer their usual disorder of unbelief, both in these and the
like statements. But let us adopt the godly doctrine of our
Faith, worshipping one God the Father of the Christ, (for to deprive
Him, who grants to all the gift of generation, of the like dignity
would be impious): and let us Believe in One
God the Father, in order that, before we touch upon our teaching
concerning Christ, the faith concerning the Only-begotten may be
implanted in the soul of the hearers, without being at all interrupted
by the intervening doctrines concerning the Father.