What our fathers said, the same say we, that the
glory of the Father and of the Son is common; wherefore we offer the
doxology to the Father with the Son. But we do not rest
only on the fact that such is the tradition of the Fathers; for they
too followed the sense of Scripture, and started from the evidence
which, a few sentences back, I deduced from Scripture and laid before
you. For “the brightness” is always thought of
with “the
glory,” Heb. i. 1. cf. Aug.
Ep. ii. ad Serap.: “The Father is Light, and the
Son brightness and true light.” “the
image” with the archetype, 2 Cor. iv. 4. and the Son
always and everywhere together with the Father; nor does even the
close connexion of the names, much less the nature of the things,
admit of separation.