47. In all things the blessed Apostle
preserves the unchangeable teaching of the Gospel faith. The Lord
Jesus Christ is proclaimed as God in such wise that neither does the
Apostle’s faith, by calling Him a God of a different order, fall
away to the confession of two Gods, nor by making God the Son
inseparable from the Father does it leave an opening for the unholy
doctrine of a single and solitary God. For when he says, in
the form of God and in the glory of the Father the Apostle
neither teaches that They differ one from another, nor allows us to
think of Him as not existing. For He Who is in the form of God
neither ends by becoming another God nor Himself loses His
Godhead: for He cannot be severed from the form of God since He
exists in it, nor is He, Who is in the form of God, not God Just as He
Who is in the glory of God cannot be aught else than God, and, since He
is God in the glory of God, cannot be proclaimed as another god and one
different from the true God, seeing that by reason of the fact that He
is in the glory of God He possesses naturally from Him in Whose glory
He is, the property of divinity.