XIX. Of the other titles, some are evidently names
of His Authority, others of His Government of the world, and of this
viewed under a twofold aspect, the one before the other in the
Incarnation. For instance the Almighty, the King of Glory, or of
The Ages, or of The Powers, or of The Beloved, or of Kings. Or
again the Lord of Sabaoth, that is of Hosts, or of Powers, or of Lords;
these are clearly titles belonging to His Authority. But the God
either of Salvation or of Vengeance, or of Peace, or of Righteousness;
or of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of all the spiritual Israel that
seeth God,—these belong to His Government. For since we are
governed by these three things, the fear of punishment, the hope of
salvation and of glory besides, and the practice of the virtues by
which these are attained, the Name of the God of Vengeance governs
fear, and that of the God of Salvation our hope, and that of the God of
Virtues our practice; that whoever attains to any of these may, as
carrying God in himself, press on yet more unto perfection, and to that
affinity which arises out of virtues. Now these are Names common
to the Godhead, but the Proper Name of the Unoriginate is Father, and
that of the unoriginately Begotten is Son, and that of the unbegottenly
Proceeding or going forth is The Holy Ghost. Let us proceed then
to the Names of the Son, which were our starting point in this part of
our argument.