64. Kept always from guile by the gift of the Holy
Spirit, we confess and write of our own will that there are not two
Gods but one God; nor do we therefore deny that the Son of God is also
God; for He is God of God. We deny that there are two incapable
of birth, because God is one through the prerogative of being incapable
of birth; nor does it follow that the Unbegotten is not God, for His
source is the Unborn substance. There is not one subsistent
Person, but a similar substance in both Persons. There is not one
name of God applied to dissimilar natures, but a wholly similar essence
belonging to one name and nature. One is not superior to the
other on account of the kind of His substance, but one is subject to
the other because born of the other. The Father is greater
because He is Father, the Son is not the less because He is Son.
The difference is one of the meaning of a name and not of a
nature. We confess that the Father is not affected by time, but
do not deny that the Son is equally eternal. We assert that the
Father is in the Son because the Son has nothing in Himself unlike the
Father: we confess that the Son is in the Father because the
existence of the Son is not from any other source. We recognize
that their nature is mutual and similar because equal: we do not
think them to be one Person because they are one: we declare that
they are through the similarity of an identical nature one, in such a
way that they nevertheless are not one Person.