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he says,
"
AND THKIR REFUTATION. Ill
the Father is the measure, and he is infinite, and the
Son containing him must be infinite likewise." They object that
St. Irueneus has said that the day of judgment is known to the
Father alone, and that the Father is greater than the Son ; but
this has been already answered (vide n. 10) ; and again, in
another place, where the Saint says,
the God of the living" (6).
"
Christ, with the Father, is
28. Athenagoras, a Christian Philosopher of Athens, in his
Apology for the Christians, writes to the Emperors Antoninus
and Commodus, that the reason why we say that all things
were made by the Son is this: "Whereas," he says, "the Father
and the Son are one and the same, and the Son is in the Father,
and the Father in the Son, by the unity and power of the Spirit,
the Mind and Word is the Son of God." In these words :
" Whereas the Father and the Son are one," he explains the
unity of Nature of the Son with the Father ; and in the other,
"
the Son is in the Father, and the Father in the Son," that
peculiarity of the Trinity called by theologians Circumineession,
adds :
by which one Person is in the others. He immediately
" We assert that the Son the Word is God, as is also the Holy
Ghost united in power."
29. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch, under the Emperor
Marcus Aurelius, says (7) :
" We ought to know that our
Lord Christ is true God and true man God from God the
Father man from Mary, his human Mother." Clement of Alex
the Word himself has appeared to man,
Now andria (8) writes :
"
who alone is both at the same time God and man." And again
he says (9) :
" God
hates nothing, nor neither does the Word,
for both are one, to wit, God, for he has said, In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God." Origen (10) wrote against Celsus, who objected to the
Christians, that they adored Jesus Christ as God, though he was
" Be it known to our
dead, and he thus expresses himself :
accusers that we believe this Jesus to be God and the Son of
God." And again he says (II), that although Christ suffered as
(6) St. Iraen. ad Haer. I. 3, c. 11. (9) Idem, /. 1
; Psedagog. c. 8.
(7) Theoph. /. 5 ; Allegor. in Evang. (10) Origen, /. 3, cont. Celsum.
(8) Clem. Alex, in Admon. ad (11) Idem, 1. 4, cont. Celsum.
Gnecos.