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On the Trinity

Novatian, ANF 5

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Novatian, with the View of Treating of the Trinity, Sets Forth from the Rule of Faith…
God is Above All, Things, Himself Containing All Things, Immense, Eternal, Transcending…
That God is the Founder of All Things, Their Lord and Parent, is Proved from the Holy…
Moreover, He is Good, Always the Same, Immutable, One and Only, Infinite; And His Own…
If We Regard the Anger, and Indignation, and Hatred of God Described in the Sacred Pages,…
And That, Although Scripture Often Changes the Divine Appearance into a Human Form, Yet…
Moreover, that When God is Called a Spirit, Brightness, and Light, God is Not…
It is This God, Therefore, that the Church Has Known and Adores; And to Him the Testimony…
Further, that the Same Rule of Truth Teaches Us to Believe, After the Father, Also in the…
That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Truly Man, as Opposed to the Fancies of Heretics,…
And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of…
That Christ is God, is Proved by the Authority of the Old Testament Scriptures
That the Same Truth is Proved from the Sacred Writings of the New Covenant
14. The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument
15. Again He Proves from the Gospel that Christ is God
16. Again from the Gospel He Proves Christ to Be God
It Is, Moreover, Proved by Moses in the Beginning of the Holy Scriptures
Moreover Also, from the Fact that He Who Was Seen of Abraham is Called God; Which Cannot…
That God Also Appeared to Jacob as an Angel; Namely, the Son of God
It is Proved from the Scriptures that Christ Was Called an Angel. But Yet It is Shown…
That the Same Divine Majesty is Again Confirmed in Christ by Other Scriptures
That the Same Divine Majesty is in Christ, He Once More Asserts by Other Scriptures
And This is So Manifest, that Some Heretics Have Thought Him to Be God the Father, Others…
That These Have Therefore Erred, by Thinking that There Was No Difference Between the Son…
And that It Does Not Follow Thence, that Because Christ Died It Must Also Be Received…
Moreover, Against the Sabellians He Proves that the Father is One, the Son Another
He Skilfully Replies to a Passage Which the Heretics Employed in Defence of Their Own…
He Proves Also that the Words Spoken to Philip Make Nothing for the Sabellians
He Next Teaches Us that the Authority of the Faith Enjoins, After the Father and the Son,…
In Fine, Notwithstanding the Said Heretics Have Gathered the Origin of Their Error from…
But that God, the Son of God, Born of God the Father from Everlasting, Who Was Always in…
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