Just as a king, if he himself paints a likeness of his son, is right in calling this likeness his own, for both these reasons,
because it is [the likeness] of his son, and because it is his own production; so also does the Father confess the name of
Jesus Christ, which is throughout all the world glorified in the Church, to be His own, both because it is that of His Son,
and because He who thus describes it gave Him for the salvation of men. Since, therefore, the name of the Son belongs
to the Father, and since in the omnipotent God the Church makes offerings through Jesus Christ.
an image of God, nor any one else, except the Word of the Lord, nor any Power remotely distant from the Father of all
things. . . . For God did not stand in need of these [beings], in order to the accomplishing of what He had Himself
determined with Himself beforehand should be done, as if He did not possess His own hands. For with Him were always
present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, by whom and in whom, freely and spontaneously, He made all
things, to whom also He speaks, saying, "Let Us make man after Our image and likeness;"
power over all things from the same God who made all things by the Word, and adorned them by [His] Wisdom.
Wherefore the prophets, receiving the prophetic gift from the same Word, announced His advent according to the flesh,
by which the blending and communion of God and man took place according to the good pleasure of the Father, the
Word of God foretelling from the beginning that God should be seen by men, and hold converse with them upon earth,
should confer with them, and should be present with His own creation, saving it, and becoming capable of being
perceived by it, and freeing us from the hands of all that hate us, that is, from every spirit of wickedness; and causing us
to serve Him in holiness and righteousness all our days, in order that man, having embraced the Spirit of God, might pass
into the glory of the Father.
preparing man in the Son of God, and the Son leading him to the Father, while the Father, too, confers [upon him]
incorruption for eternal life, which comes to every one from the fact of his seeing God.
therefore, was God revealed; for God the Father is shown forth through all these [operations], the Spirit indeed working,
and the Son ministering, while the Father was approving, and man's salvation being accomplished. . . . for all things
learn through His Word that there is one God the Father.
and preserving at the same time the invisibility of the Father. . . . revealing God to men through many dispensations. . . .
For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation, affords life to all living in the earth, much more
does that revelation of the Father which comes through the Word, give life to those who see God.
A.H. 4.20.9. Two facts are thus signified: that it is impossible for man to see God; and that, through the wisdom of God, man
A.H. 4.20.11. But His Word, as He Himself willed it, and for the benefit of those who beheld, did show the Father's
from His Father. . . . Word of God.
three were] doubtless [a type of] the Father and the Son, together with the Holy Spirit.
Spirit, who vivifies us.
A.H. 4.23.2. . . . Son of God . . . Son of God . . . Son of the Living God.
A.H. 4.24.1. . . . and to worship one God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Framer of the whole creation; and that His