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14. Let us therefore say nothing of those who, with an over carnal
mind, have thought the nature of the Word of God, and the Wisdom,
which, "remaining in herself, maketh all things new," whom we call
the only Son of God, not only to be changeable, but also to be
visible. For these, with more audacity than religion, bring a very
dull heart to the inquiry into divine things. For whereas the soul is
a spiritual substance, and whereas itself also was made, vet could not
be made by any other than by Him by whom all things were made, and
without whom nothing is made, it, although changeable, is yet not
visible; and this they have believed to be the case with the Word
Himself and with the Wisdom of God itself, by which the soul was
made; whereas this Wisdom is not only invisible, as the soul also
is, but likewise unchangeable, which the soul is not. It is in truth
the same unchangeableness in it, which is referred to when it was
said, "Remaining in herself she maketh all things new." Yet these
people, endeavoring, as it were, to prop up their error in its fall
by testimonies of the divine Scriptures, adduce the words of the
Apostle Paul; and take that, which is said of the one only God, in
whom the Trinity itself is understood, to be said only of the
Father, and neither of the Son nor of the Holy Spirit: "Now unto
the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor
and glory for ever and ever;" and that other passage, "The blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only
hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach
unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see." How these passages are
to be understood, I think we have already discoursed sufficiently.
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