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112 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
man, the Word who was God did not suffer.
" We distinguish/
"
he says, between the Nature of the Divine Word, which is God,
and the soul of Jesus." I do not quote the passage which follows,
as it is on that theologians found their doubts of the faith of
Origen, as the reader may see by consulting Nat. Alexander (12),
but there can be no doubt, from the passage already quoted,
that Origen confessed that Jesus was God and the Son of God.
30. Dionisius Alexandrinus, towards the end of the third
century, was accused (13) of denying the consubstantiality of
"
the Word with the Father, but he : says I have shown that they
falsely charge me with saying that Christ is not consubstantial
with God." St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, one of Origen s
scholars, Bishop of Pontus, and one of the accusers of Paul of
Samosata in the Synod of Antioch, says,
in his Confession of
Faith : (14)
" There is one God, the Father of the living Word,
the perfect Father of the perfect, the Father of the only-begotten
Son (solus ex solo), God of God. And there is one Holy Ghost
from God having existence." St. Methodius, as St. Jerom in
forms us (15), Bishop of Tyre, who suffered martyrdom under
Diocletian, thus speaks of the Word in his book entitled De
Martyribus, quoted by Theodoret (16)
of God, who it thought no robbery to be equal to God."
: "The Lord and the Son
31. We now come to the Latin Fathers of the Western
Church. St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (1 7), proves the Divi
nity of the Word with the very texts we have already quoted.
" The Lord : says I and the Father are one." And again, it
is written of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
"
" and these three are one." In another place he says (18), God
is mingled with man ; this is our God this is Christ." I omit
the authority of St. Dionisius Romanus, of St. Athanasius, of
Arnobius, of Lactantius, of Minutius Felix, of Zeno, and of
other eminent writers, who forcibly defend the Divinity of the
Word. I will merely here quote a few passages from Tertullian,
(12) Nat. Alex. sec. 3, Diss. 16, (15) St. Hier. de Scrip. Ecclcs. c. 34.
art. 2.
(16) Theodoret, Dial. 1, p. 37.
(13) Dionys. Alex, apud St. Athan. (17) St. Cyprian, de lib. Unit Eccles.
* 1, P- 561.
(18) Idem, /. de Idol, vanit.
(14) St. Greg. Thaum. p. 1, Oper.
apud Greg. Nyssen. in Vita Greg.
Thaum.