10. What wild insanity of abandoned
souls! What blind audacity of reckless blasphemy! You hear
of God and God; you hear of Our image. Why suggest that
One is, and One is not, true God? Why distinguish between God by
nature and God in name? Why, under pretext of defending the
faith, do you destroy the faith? Why struggle to
pervert the revelation of One God,
One true God, into a denial that God is One and true? Not yet
will I stifle your insane efforts with the clear words of Evangelists
and Prophets, in which Father and Son appear not as one Person, but as
One in nature, and Each as true God. For the present the Law,
unaided, annihilates you. Does the Law ever speak of One true
God, and One not true? Does it ever speak of Either, except by
the name of God, which is the true expression of Their nature? It
speaks of God and God; it speaks also of God as One. Nay, it does
more than so describe Them. It manifests Them as true God and
true God, by the sure evidence of Their joint image. It begins by
speaking of Them first by their strict name of God; then it attributes
true Godhead to Both in common. For when man, Their creature, is
created after the image of Both, sound reason forces the conclusion
that Each of Them is true God.