75. We
maintain the answer given by piety. God is Almighty, and
therefore God the Father needs none of those things, for in Him there
is no changing, nor any place for such help as we need, we whose
weakness is supported by means of things of this kind. But He Who
is Almighty, plainly He is uncreate, and not confined to any place, and
surpasses time. Before God was not anything—nay, even to
speak about anything being before God is a grave sin. If, then,
you grant that in the nature of God the Father there is nought that
implies a being sustained, because He is God, it follows that nothing
of this sort can be supposed to exist in the Son of God, nothing that
connotes a beginning, or growth, forasmuch as He is “very God of
very God.” Cf. Nicene
Creed.