133. But the Arians think that they must
oppose hereto the fact that He had said, “I live by the
Father.” Of a certainty (suppose that they conceive the
words as referring to His Godhead) the Son lives by the Father, because
He is the Son begotten of the Father,—by the Father, because He
is of one Substance with the Father,—by the Father, because He is
the Word given forth from the heart of the Father, Ps. xlv. 1. because He came forth from the Father,
because He is begotten of the “bowels of the
Father,” Ps. cx. 3. because the
Father is the Fountain and Root of the Son’s being.