{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-428","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: In saying, then, \"through Him,\" has he denied that all things were made in Him, through Whom he says that all things exist? These words, \"in Him\" and \"with Him,\" have this force, that by them is understood one and like in all respects, not contrary. Which he also made clear farther on, saying: \"All things have been created through Him and in Him;\" for, as we said above, Scripture witnesses that these three expressions, \"with Him,\" and \"through Him,\" and \"in Him,\" are equivalent in Christ.<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit, Book 3, 84</i></p><p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Who, then, would dare to deny the oneness of Name, when he sees the oneness of the working. But why should I maintain the unity of the Name by arguments, when there is the plain testimony of the Divine Voice that the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one? For it is written: \"Go, baptize all nations in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.\" He said, \"in the Name,\" not \"in the Names.\" So, then, the Name of the Father is not one, that of the Son another, and that of the Holy Spirit another, for God is one; the Names are not more than one, for there are not two Gods, or three Gods.<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit, Book 1, 132</i></p><p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Everything which exists has been created by the Father through the Son. It is impossible for God not to be Lord as well, and since the Lord is God, it is clear that Father and Son are one.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: You have made not only what is created and formed but also whatever can be created and formed. Everything which is formed from the formless must first be formless before it can be a formed thing.<br/><i>— Confessions 12.19</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Also, when the same apostle says, \"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him,\" who can doubt that he speaks of all things which are created; as does John, when he says, \"All things were made by Him\"? I ask, therefore, of whom he speaks in another place: \"For of Him, and through Him, and in Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.\" For if of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, so as to assign each clause severally to each person: of Him, that is to say, of the Father; through Him, that is to say, through the Son; in Him, that is to say, in the Holy Spirit,—it is manifest that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one God, inasmuch as the words continue in the singular number, \"To whom be glory for ever.\"<br/><i>— ON THE TRINITY 1.13</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And if we would persuade any of our fellow-guests to virtue, we are all the more on this account to abstain from those dainty dishes; and so exhibit ourselves as a bright pattern of virtue, such as we ourselves have in Christ. \"For if any of such meats make a brother to stumble, I shall not eat it as long as the world lasts,\" says he, \"that I may not make my brother stumble.\" I gain the man by a little self-restraint. \"Have we not power to eat and to drink?\" And \"we know\"-he says the truth-\"that an idol is nothing in the world; but we have only one true God, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus. But,\" he says, \"through thy knowledge thy weak brother perishes, for whom Christ died; and they that wound the conscience of the weak brethren sin against Christ.\" Thus the apostle, in his solicitude for us, discriminates in the case of entertainments, saying, that \"if any one called a brother be found a fornicator, or an adulterer, or an idolater, with such an one not to eat;\" neither in discourse or food are we to join, looking with suspicion on the pollution thence proceeding, as on the tables of the demons.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 2</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: Just as there is one God the Father from whom are all things, so there is one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things.<br/><i>— LETTER 50.26</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: We say \"one\" to stop anyone dreaming that there could be another. We say \"one\" lest you should hear of his work under manifold names.<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 10:3</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: This word declares the mystery of the truth rightly and clearly. He who is over all is God; for thus He speaks boldly, \"All things are delivered unto me of my Father.\" He who is over all, God blessed, has been born; and having been made man, He is (yet) God for ever. For to this effect John also has said, \"Which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.\" And well has he named Christ the Almighty. For in this he has said only what Christ testifies of Himself. For Christ gave this testimony, and said, \"All things are delivered unto me of my Father;\" and Christ rules all things, and has been appointed Almighty by the Father.<br/><i>— Against the Heresy of One Noetus</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: And [know ye, moreover], that He who was born of a woman was the Son of God, and He that was crucified was \"the first-born of every creature,\" and God the Word, who also created all things. For says the apostle, \"There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.\" And again, \"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus; \" and, \"By Him were all things created that are in heaven, and on earth, visible and invisible; and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.\"<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Tarsians</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: Being mindful of your love and of your zeal in Christ, which ye have manifested towards us, we thought it fitting to write to you, who display such a godly and spiritual love to the brethren, to put you in remembrance of your Christian course, \"that ye all speak the same thing, being of one mind, thinking the same thing, and walking by the same rule of faith,\" as Paul admonished you. For if there is one God of the universe, the Father of Christ, \"of whom are all things; \" and one Lord Jesus Christ, our [Lord], \"by whom are all things; \" and also one Holy Spirit, who wrought in Moses, and in the prophets and apostles; and also one baptism, which is administered that we should have fellowship with the death of the Lord; and also one elect Church; there ought likewise to be but one faith in respect to Christ. For \"there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is through all, and in all.\"<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Philippians</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For \"the Lord thy God,\" saith [the Scripture], \"is one Lord.\" And again, \"Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father? And there is also one Son, God the Word. For \"the only-begotten Son,\" saith [the Scripture], \"who is in the bosom of the Father.\" And again, \"One Lord Jesus Christ.\" And in another place, \"What is His name, or what His Son's name, that we may know? \" And there is also one Paraclete. For \"there is also,\" saith [the Scripture], \"one Spirit,\" since \"we have been called in one hope of our calling.\" And again, \"We have drunk of one Spirit,\" with what follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] \"worketh one and the self-same Spirit.\" There are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to \"baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\" not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour.<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Philippians</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: The Father is one, just as the Son is one. If the Son is called Lord, that does not make the Father any less Lord, just as when it is said that God the Father is one, the Son is no less God.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Marcion, however, does not say that the Creator is not God; so that the apostle can hardly be thought to have ranked the Creator amongst those who are called gods, without being so; since, even if they had been gods, \"to us there is but one God, the Father.\" Now, from whom do all things come to us, but from Him to whom all things belong? And pray, what things are these? You have them in a preceding part of the epistle: \"All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Note once more the apostle's wisdom. 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