102. If, however, there is—as I think there
is—a distinction between “created” and
“begotten,” then, when we have read that He is begotten, we
shall surely not understand the same by the terms
“begotten” and “created.” Let them
therefore confess Him to be begotten of the Father, born of the Virgin,
or let them say how the Son of God can be both begotten and
created. A single nature, above all, the Divine Being, rejects
strife (within itself).