Athanasius (Expos.
Fidei, § 1): “Word not pronounced nor mental, nor
an effluence of the Perfect, nor a dividing of the passionless
nature.” Also (de Decretis, § 11):
“God being without parts is Father of the Son without partition
or passion; for there is neither effluence of the Immaterial, nor
influx from without, as among men.”