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Uncreate, without beginning, immortal, infinite, eternal,
immaterial, good, creative, just, enlightening, immutable,
passionless, uncircumscribed, immeasurable, unlimited, undefined,
unseen, unthinkable, wanting in nothing, being His own rule and
authority, all-ruling, life-giving, omnipotent, of infinite
power, con-raining and maintaining the universe and making provision
for all: all these and such like attributes the Deity possesses by
nature, not having received them from elsewhere, but Himself
imparting all good to His own creations according to the capacity of
each.
The subsistences dwell and are established firmly in one another. For
they are inseparable and cannot part from one another, but keep to
their separate courses within one another, without coalescing or
mingling, but cleaving to each other. For the Son is in the Father
and the Spirit: and the Spirit in the Father and the Son: and the
Father in the Son and the Spirit, but there is no coalescence or
commingling or confusion And there is one and the same motion: for
there is one impulse and one motion of the three subsistences, which is
not to be observed in any created nature.
Further the divine effulgence and energy, being one anti simple and
indivisible, assuming many varied forms in its goodness among what is
divisible and allotting to each the component parts of its own nature,
still remains simple and is multiplied without division among the
divided, and gathers and converts the divided into its own simplicity.
For all things long after it and have their existence in it. It gives
also to all things being according to their several natures, and it is
itself the being of existing things, the life of living things, the
reason of rational beings, the thought of thinking beings. But it is
itself above mind and reason and life and essence.
Further the divine nature has the property of penetrating all things
without mixing with them and of being itself impenetrable by anything
else. Moreover, there is the property of knowing all things with a
simple knowledge and of seeing all things, simply with His divine,
all-surveying, immaterial eye, both the things of the present, and
the things of the past, and the things of the future, before they come
into being. It is also sinless, and can cast sin out, and bring
salvation: and all that it wills, it can accomplish, but does not
will all it could accomplish. For it could destroy the universe but it
does not will so to do.
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