32. We will leave it to him to preach two
Gods, who can preach One God without confessing the unity; he shall
proclaim that God is solitary, who can deny that there are two Persons,
Each dwelling in the Other by the power of Their nature and the mystery
of birth given and received. And that man may assign a different
nature to Each of the Two, who is ignorant that the unity of Father and
of Son is a revealed truth. Let the heretics blot out this record
of the Son’s self-revelation I in the Father and the Father in
Me; then, and not till then, shall they assert that there are two
Gods, or one God in loneliness. There is no hint of more natures
than one in what we are told of Their possession of the one Divine
nature. The truth that God is from God does not multiply God by
two; the birth destroys the supposition of a lonely God. And
again, because They are interdependent They form an unity; and that
They are interdependent is proved by Their being One from One.
For the One, in begetting the One, conferred upon Him nothing that was
not His own; and the One, in being begotten, received from the One only
what belongs to one. Thus the apostolic faith, in proclaiming the
Father, will proclaim Him as One God, and in confessing the Son will
confess Him as One God; since one and the same Divine nature exists in
Both, and because, the Father being God and the Son being God, and the
one name of God expressing the nature of Both, the term ‘One
God’ signifies the Two. God from God, or God in God, does
not mean that there are two Gods, for God abides, One from One,
eternally with the one Divine nature and the one Divine name; nor does
God dwindle down to a single Person, for One and One can never be in
solitude.