60. To declare the Son to be incapable of birth is
the height of impiety. God would no longer be One: for the
nature of the one Unborn God demands that we should confess that God is
one. Since therefore God is one, there cannot be two incapable of
birth: because God is one (although both the Father is God and
the Son of God is God) for the very reason that incapability of birth
is the only quality that can belong to one Person only. The Son
is God for the very reason that He derives His birth from that essence
which cannot be born. Therefore our holy faith rejects the idea
that the Son is incapable of birth in order to predicate one God
incapable of birth and consequently one God, and in order to embrace
the Only-begotten nature, begotten from the unborn essence, in the one
name of the Unborn God. For the Head of all things is the
Son: but the Head of the Son is God. And to one God through
this stepping-stone and by this confession all things are referred,
since the whole world takes its beginning from Him to whom God Himself
is the beginning.