To others also the Scripture says, Ye are the
sons of the Lord your God Deut. xiv. 1.: and in
another place, I have said, Ye are gods, and ye are all sons of the
Most High Ps. lxxxii. 6.. I have
said, not, “I have begotten.” They, when God so
said, received the sonship, which before they had not: but
He was not begotten to be other than He was before; but was begotten
from the beginning Son of the Father, being above all beginning and all
ages, Son of the Father, in all things like ἐν
πᾶσιν
ὅμοιος. See the note on iv.
7. That the phrase was not equivalent to ὁμοούσιος, and did
not adequately express the relation of the Son to the Father is clearly
shewn by Athanasius (de Synodis, cap. iii. § 53). to
Him who begat Him, eternal of a Father eternal, Life of Life begotten,
and Light of Light, and Truth of Truth, and Wisdom of the Wise, and
King of King, and God of God, and Power of Power The additions which the Benedictine Editor
has here made to the earlier text, as represented by Milles, may be
conveniently shewn in brackets. ἀλλὰ
Υἱὸς [τοῦ
Πατρὸς]*
ἐξ
ἀρχῆς
ἐγεννήθη, [ὑπεράνω
πάσης ἀρχῆς
καὶ αἰώνων
τυγχάνων]*, Υιὸς
τοῦ Πατρὸς
[ἐν
πᾶσιν]†
ὅμοιος τῷ
γεγεννηκότι·
[ἀΐδιος ἐξ
ἀϊδίου
Πατρός,]* ζωὴ
ἐκ ζωῆς
γεγεννημένος.
…καὶ
Θεὸς ἐκ
Θεοῦ, [καὶ
δύναμις ἐκ
δυνάμεως]‡.
* Codd. Coisl. Ottob. Mon. 2. † Coisl.
Ottob. Roe, Casaub. Mon. 1, 2.
‡ Coisl. Ottob. Mon. 1, 2..