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Orthodox Creed · Chapter 4

Of the Divine Nature, or Godhead of Christ

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1. We confess and believe, that the Son of God, or the Eternal Word, is very and true God,a having his Personal Subsistence of the Father alone,b and yet for ever of himself as God, and of the Father as the Son, the Eternal Son of an Eternal Father; not later in Beginning.c There was never any time when he was not,d* not less in Dignity, not other in Substance,e Begotten without diminution of his Father that begat, of one Nature and Substance with the Father; Begotten of the Father, while the Father communicated wholly to the Son, which He retained wholly in himself, because both were Infinite;f without inequality of Nature, without division of Essence, neither Made, nor Created, nor Adopted, but Begotten before all Time;g not a Metaphorical, or Subordinate God;h not a God by Office, but a God by Nature, Coequal,i Coessential,j and Coeternal with the Father,k and the Holy Ghost.

Notes

  1. *Gnolam, or Eternity.

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aJohn 5:20; 1:1–3
  2. bHebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:15–17
  3. cColossians 2:2, 9
  4. dMicah 5:2; Matthew 2:6; Proverbs 8:22–23, 35
  5. ePhilippians 2:6
  6. fJohn 16:27–28; 1:18
  7. gIsaiah 40:11–12, 22
  8. hRevelation 1:8, 11
  9. iPhilippians 2:6
  10. jJohn 10:30
  11. kIsaiah 9:6; John 17:5

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