14. We believe then In the
Only-Begotten Son of God, Who Was Begotten of the Father Very
God. For the True God begetteth not a false god, as we
have said, nor did He deliberate and afterwards beget See above, § 8,
note 3.; but He begat eternally, and much more
swiftly than our words or thoughts: for we speaking in time,
consume time; but in the case of the Divine Power, the generation is
timeless. And as I have often said, He did not bring forth the
Son from non-existence into being, nor take the non-existent into
sonship Athan. (c.
Arian. I. ix. 31) “speaking against the Lord, ‘He is of
nothing,’ and ‘He was not before His
generation.’”: but the
Father, being Eternal, eternally and ineffably begat One Only Son, who
has no brother. Nor are there two first principles; but the
Father is the head of the Son 1 Cor. xi. 3.; the beginning
is One. For the Father begot the Son Very
God, called Emmanuel; and Emmanuel being interpreted is, God
with us Matt. i. 23..