7.  For devotion it suffices us simply to know that we have a God; a God who is One, a living Gr. ὄντα, ἀεὶ ὄντα., an ever-living God; always like unto Himself Iren. II. xiii. 3:  “He is altogether like and equal to Himself; since He is all sense, and all spirit, and all feeling, and all thought, and all reason, and all hearing, and all ear, and all eye, and all light, and all a fount of every good,—even as the religious and pious are wont to speak of God.”; who has no Father, none mightier than Himself, no successor to thrust Him out from His kingdom:  Who in name is manifold, in power infinite, in substance uniform μονοειδῆ.  A Platonic word.  Phædo, 80 B:  τῷ μὲν θείω καὶ ἀθανάτῳ καὶ νοητῷ καὶ μονοειδεῖ καὶ ἀδιαλύτῳ καὶ ἀεὶ ὡσαύτως κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔχοντι ἑαυτῷ ὁμοιότατον εἶναι ψυχήν.  See Index, “Hypostasis.”.  For though He is called Good, and Just, and Almighty and Sabaoth Iren. II. xxxv. 3:  “If any object that in the Hebrew language different expressions occur, such as Sabaoth, Elöe, Adonai, and all other such terms, striving to prove from these that there are different powers and Gods, let them learn that all expressions of this kind are titles and announcements of one and the same Being.”, He is not on that account diverse and various; but being one and the same, He sends forth countless operations of His Godhead, not exceeding here and deficient there, but being in all things like unto Himself.  Not great in loving-kindness only, and little in wisdom, but with wisdom and loving-kindness in equal power:  not seeing in part, and in part devoid of sight; but being all eye, and all ear, and all mind See the passages of Irenæus quoted above, § 2 note 4, and § 7 note 3.:  not like us perceiving in part and in part not knowing; for such a statement were blasphemous, and unworthy of the Divine substance.  He foreknoweth the things that be; He is Holy, and Almighty, and excelleth all in goodness, and majesty, and wisdom:  of Whom we can declare neither beginning, nor form, nor shape.  For ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape John v. 37., saith Holy Scripture.  Wherefore Moses saith also to the Israelites:  And take ye good heed to your own souls, for ye saw no similitude Deut. iv. 15..  For if it is wholly impossible to imagine His likeness, how shall thought come near His substance?