13. Thus the name which expresses His nature
proves the truth of our confession of the faith. For the name,
which indicates any single substance, points out also any other
substance of the same kind; and, in this instance, there are not two
substances but one substance, of the one kind. For the Son of God
is God; this is the truth expressed in His name. The one name
does not embrace two Gods; for the one name God is the name of one
indivisible nature. For since the Father is God and the Son is
God, and that name which is peculiar to the Divine nature is inherent
in Each, therefore the Two are One. For the Son, though He
subsists through a birth from the Divine nature, yet preserves the
unity in His name; and this birth of the Son does not compel loyal
believers to acknowledge two Gods, since our confession declares that
Father and Son are One, both in nature and in name. Thus the Son
of God has the Divine name as the result of His birth. Now the
second step in our demonstration was to be that of shewing that it is
by virtue of His birth that He is God. I have still to bring
forward the evidence of the Apostles that the Divine name is used of
Him in an exact sense; but for the present I purpose to continue our
enquiry into the language of the Gospels.