4. He, therefore, being the perfect
Father’s perfect Son, the Only-begotten Offspring of the
unbegotten God, who has received all from Him Who possesses all, being
God from God, Spirit from Spirit, Light from Light, says boldly, The
Father in Me, and I in the Father St. John x. 38.. For
as the Father is Spirit, so is the Son Spirit; as the Father is God, so
is the Son God; as the Father is Light, so is the Son Light. Thus
those properties which are in the Father are the source of those
wherewith the Son is endowed; that is, He is wholly Son of Him Who is
wholly Father; not imported from without, for before the Son nothing
was; not made from nothing, for the Son is from God; not a son
partially, for the fulness of the Godhead is in the Son; not a Son in
some respects, but in all; a Son according to the will of Him who had
the power, after a manner which He only knows. What is in the
Father is in the Son also; what is in the Unbegotten is in the
Only-begotten also. The One is from the Other, and they Two are a
Unity; not Two made One, yet One in the Other, for that which is in
Both is the same. The Father is in the Son, for the Son is from
Him; the Son is in the Father, because the Father is His sole Origin; the Only-begotten is
in the Unbegotten, because He is the Only-begotten from the
Unbegotten. Thus mutually Each is in the Other, for as all is
perfect in the Unbegotten Father, so all is perfect in the
Only-begotten Son. This is the Unity which is in Son and Father,
this the power, this the love; our hope, and faith, and truth, and way,
and life is not to dispute the Father’s powers or to depreciate
the Son, but to reverence the mystery and majesty of His birth; to set
the unbegotten Father above all rivalry, and count the Only-begotten
Son as His equal in eternity and might, confessing concerning God the
Son that He is from God.