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“No sooner do I conceive of the one than I am illumined by the splendor of the three;
no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one.
When I think of anyone of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me.
I cannot grasp the greatness of that one so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest.
When I contemplate the three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.”
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no sooner do I distinguish them than I am carried back to the one.
When I think of anyone of the three I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me.
I cannot grasp the greatness of that one so as to attribute a greater greatness to the rest.
When I contemplate the three together, I see but one torch, and cannot divide or measure out the undivided light.”
―
“when it comes to God, you attach an awe-inspiring solemnity to him, a transcendence of every substance and nature. What constitutes the unique nature of God’s deity, so to say, you ascribe to the Father but then rob the Son of it and make him subordinate. You give the Son a second level in quality and worship. Even if you endow him with the syllables which make up the word “similar,” you in fact truncate his Godhead, and make a mischievous transition from an homonymity maintaining equality to one connecting unequals.”
― On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius
― On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius
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