96. The objection, then, holds not together,
that the Son cannot be equal to the Father, by reason of the Father
having begotten the Son, whilst the Son has begotten no Son of Himself,
for the spring begets the stream, though the stream begets no spring
out of itself, and light begets radiance, and not radiance light, yet
the nature of radiance and light is one. Cf. Heb. i. 3, where Christ is called the Radiance of
the Father’s Glory (ἀπαύγασμταῆς
δόξης).