Chapter V.—He Recognises the
Trinity in the First Two Verses of Genesis.
6. Behold now, the Trinity appears unto me in
an enigma, which Thou, O my God, art, since Thou, O Father, in the
Beginning of our wisdom,—Which is Thy Wisdom, born of Thyself,
equal and co-eternal unto Thee,—that is, in Thy Son, hast created
heaven and earth. Many things have we said of the heaven of
heavens, and of the earth invisible and formless, and of the
darksome deep, in reference to the wandering defects of its
spiritual deformity, were it not converted unto Him from whom was
its life, such as it was, and by His enlightening became a
beauteous life, and the heaven of that heaven which was afterwards
set between water and water. And under the name of God, I now held
the Father, who made these things; and under the name of the
Beginning,
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the Son,
in whom He made these things; and believing, as I did, that my God
was the Trinity, I sought further in His holy words, and behold,
Thy Spirit was borne over the waters. Behold the Trinity, O my God,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,—the Creator of all
creation.
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See also xi. sec. 10, and note, above.