16. Further, that none may fall into error,
let a man attend to those signs vouchsafed us by holy Scripture,
whereby we may know the Son. He is called the Word, the Son, the
Power of God, the Wisdom of God. S. John i. 1, 14; xx. 31;
Rom. i. 4; S. Matt. xxviii. 18; 1 Cor. i. 24; Col. ii. 3.
The Word, because He is without blemish;
the Power, because He is perfect; the Son, because He is begotten of
the Father; the Wisdom, because He is one with the Father, one in
eternity, one in Divinity. Not that the Father is one Person with
the Son; between Father and Son is the plain distinction that comes of
generation; Begetter and
begotten must be personally distinct. so that Christ
is God of God, Everlasting of Everlasting, Fulness of Fulness. Col. i. 19; ii. 9.