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Eunomius: The First Apology (Internet Article)
Translated by William Whiston (1711) http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eunomius_apology01.htm

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Book ID: 405 Page: 11

Section: 3C2

XXI. There is but one God, who is declared both by the Law and the Prophets: and he is own’d by our Saviour himself to be the God of the Only begotten. For says he, I go unto my God and your God. The only True God, the only Wise, and only Good, and only Powerful Being, who only has Immortality.{8}Nor let any one be diforder’d or disturb’d in his mind at this. For we do not use this Language in order to take away the Divinityof the Only-begotten, or his Wisdom, or his Immortality, or his Goodness, but in order to put a difference between things; and to own the supereminent Dignity of the Father. For we acknowledge the only-begotten God and our Lord Jesus, |21 to be Incorruptible, and Immortal, and Wise, and Good; but we affirm that the Father is the Cause of his entire Being;, and of every thing that he is; who himself has no cause of his own Substance, or of his Goodness; as being Unbegotten: the foregoing Premises affording us this Notion.

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Section: 3C2

XXII. We ought therefore to lay aside the Notion of Likeness as to Substance, and to embrace that of the Likeness of a Son to the Father, in agreement with his own words; that is, so to reduce the intire Cause and Origin of all to the One and Only Being, that the Son may be esteem’d subject to his Father.

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Book ID: 405 Page: 11

Section: 3C2

XXIII. But as to these Greeks

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Book ID: 405 Page: 12

Section: 3C2

XXIII. Wherefore we ought not to acquiesce in the Opinions of the Greeks, taken up without examination.

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Section: 3C2

XXVI. “…to be compared with him that begat him, as to his Substance; nor to that Holy Spirit which was made by him: for he is inferior to the one, as a Being made by him; and superior to the other, as his Maker."

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Section: 3C2

XXVI. And the Blessed Apostle John, when he said, All things were made by him;and without him was not any thing made.{18}From whence it will follow, that either the Spirit is Unbegotten, which is a piece of Impiety: or if he were made, he must have been made by him.

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XXVIII. There is therefore one unbegotten God, uncreated, not made; and one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, a Being begotten of him that is unbegotten; tho not like other beings that are begotten: a Being created by him that is uncreated; tho not like other created Beings; a Being made by him that was not made; tho not like other beings that were made…

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Section: 3C2

XXVIII. And one Holy Spirit, the first and greatest of all the Works of the only-begotten, made indeed by the Command of the Father, but by the Energy and Power of the Son.

*John’s Note: Eunomius of Cyzicus was a leader in the second wave of Arianism, which took place after the First Council of Nicaea.*

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