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has been distributed throughout it, that is, the Holy Spirit, the earnest of incorruption, the means of confirming our faith,
and the ladder of ascent to God. . . . Spirit of God . . . Spirit of God.
A.H. 3.24.2. [God] . . . establishing all things by His Word, and binding them together by His Wisdom . . .
A.H. 3.25.7. . . . Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A.H. 4.Preface.4. Now man is a mixed organization of soul and flesh, who was formed after the likeness of God, and
moulded by His hands, that is, by the Son and Holy Spirit, to whom also He said, "Let Us make man." . . . Son of God.
A.H. 4.1.1. Since, therefore, this is sure and stedfast, that no other God or Lord was announced by the Spirit, except Him
who, as God, rules over all, together with His Word, and those who receive the Spirit of adoption, that is, those who
believe in the one and true God, and in Jesus Christ the Son of God;
A.H. 4.2.2. Again, our Lord Jesus Christ confesses this same Being as His Father . . . . whom Christ, too, confesses as His
Father . . .
A.H. 4.2.4. . . . Son of God . . . . Son of God.
A.H. 4.2.5. For they do not receive from the Father the knowledge of the Son; neither do they learn who the Father is from
the Son, who teaches clearly and without parables Him who truly is God.
A.H. 4.2.6. . . . His Father . . . And therefore the scribes and Pharisees, too, who from the times of the law had begun to
despise God, did not receive His Word, that is, they did not believe on Christ. . . . Son of God . . .
A.H. 4.2.7. . . . Son of God . . .
A.H. 4.4.2. Well spake he, who said that the unmeasurable Father was Himself subjected to measure in the Son; for the Son is
the measure of the Father, since He also comprehends Him.
A.H. 4.5.1. . . . whom Christ confessed as His Father. . . . but since it was impossible, without God, to come to a knowledge
of God, He teaches men, through His Word, to know God.
A.H. 4.5.2. . . . and His Word is He who also spake to Moses . . . . Christ Himself, therefore, together with the Father, is the
God of the living, who spake to Moses, and who was also manifested to the fathers.
A.H. 4.5.3. . . . Abraham . . . followed the Word of God . . .
A.H. 4.5.4. For in Abraham man had learned beforehand, and had been accustomed to follow the Word of God. For
Abraham, according to his faith, followed the command of the Word of God, and with a ready mind delivered up, as a
sacrifice to God, his only-begotten and beloved son, in order that God also might be pleased to offer up for all his seed
His own beloved and only-begotten Son, as a sacrifice for our redemption.
A.H. 4.5.5. . . . the Lord's Father . . . Word of the Lord . . .
A.H. 4.6.1. For the Lord, revealing Himself to His disciples, that He Himself is the Word, who imparts knowledge of the
Father, and reproving the Jews, who imagined that they, had [the knowledge of] God, while they nevertheless rejected
His Word, through whom God is made known . . . .
A.H. 4.6.2. . . . and His Word was shown to have not always coexisted with His creatures. . . . For as we do direct our faith
towards the Son, so also should we possess a firm and immoveable love towards the Father.
A.H. 4.6.3. For no one can know the Father, unless through the Word of God, that is, unless by the Son revealing [Him];
neither can he have knowledge of the Son, unless through the good pleasure of the Father. But the Son performs the good
pleasure of the Father; for the Father sends, and the Son is sent, and comes. And His Word knows that His Father is, as
far as regards us, invisible and infinite; and since He cannot be declared [by any one else], He does Himself declare Him
to us; and, on the other hand, it is the Father alone who knows His own Word. And both these truths has our Lord
declared. Wherefore the Son reveals the knowledge of the Father through His own manifestation. For the manifestation
of the Son is the knowledge of the Father; for all things are manifested through the Word. In order, therefore, that we
might know that the Son who came is He who imparts to those believing on Him a knowledge of the Father, He said to
His disciples: "No man knoweth the Son but the Father, nor the Father but the Son, and those to whomsoever the Son
shall reveal Him;" thus setting Himself forth and the Father as He [really] is, that we may not receive any other Father,
except Him who is revealed by the Son.
A.H. 4.6.4. For none of these was the Son of God; but Christ Jesus our Lord [was] . . . . But the Lord did not say that both the
Father and the Son could not be known at all, for in that case His advent would have been superfluous. . . . For the Lord
taught us that no man is capable of knowing God, unless he be taught of God; that is, that God cannot be known without
God: but that this is the express will of the Father, that God should be known. For they shall know3861 Him to
whomsoever the Son has revealed Him.
A.H. 4.6.5. And for this purpose did the Father reveal the Son, that through His instrumentality He might be manifested to all,
and might receive those righteous ones who believe in Him into incorruption and everlasting enjoyment. . . . The Father
therefore has revealed Himself to all, by making His Word visible to all; and, conversely, the Word has declared to all
the Father and the Son, since He has become visible to all.
A.H. 4.6.6. For by means of the creation itself, the Word reveals God the Creator; and by means of the world [does He
declare] the Lord the Maker of the world; and by means of the formation [of man] the Artificer who formed him; and by
the Son that Father who begat the Son: and these things do indeed address all men in the same manner, but all do not in
the same way believe them. But by the law and the prophets did the Word preach both Himself and the Father alike [to
all]; and all the people heard Him alike, but all did not alike believe. And through the Word Himself who had been made
visible and palpable, was the Father shown forth, although all did not equally believe in Him; but all saw the Father in
the Son: for the Father is the invisible of the Son, but the Son the visible of the Father. And for this reason all spake with