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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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Dogmatic.my salvation,’ 433 <strong>and</strong> so Paul, ‘Let God be true, but every man a liar.’ 434 Thus the Lord ‘ofGod is made unto us wisdom <strong>and</strong> sanctification <strong>and</strong> redemption.’ 435 Now when the Fatherwas made defender <strong>and</strong> true, He was not a thing made; <strong>and</strong> similarly when the Son wasmade wisdom <strong>and</strong> sanctification, He was not a thing made. If it is true that there is oneGod the Father, it is assuredly also true that there is one Lord Jesus Christ the Saviour. Accordingto them the Saviour is not God nor the Father Lord, <strong>and</strong> it is written in vain, ‘theLord said unto my Lord.’ 436 False is the statement, ‘Therefore God, thy God, hath anointedthee.’ 437 False too, ‘The Lord rained from the Lord.’ 438 False, ‘God created in the image ofGod,’ 439 <strong>and</strong> ‘Who is God save the Lord?’ 440 <strong>and</strong> ‘Who is a God save our God.’ 441 Falsethe statement of John that ‘the Word was God <strong>and</strong> the Word was with God;’ 442 <strong>and</strong> thewords of Thomas of the Son, ‘my Lord <strong>and</strong> my God.’ 443 The distinctions, then, ought tobe referred to creatures <strong>and</strong> to those who are falsely <strong>and</strong> not properly called gods, <strong>and</strong> notto the Father <strong>and</strong> to the Son.”On John xvii. 3. That they may know Thee, the only true God.“The true (sing.) is spoken of in contradistinction to the false (pl.). But He is incomparable,because in comparison with all He is in all things superexcellent. When Jeremiah saidof the Son, ‘This is our God, <strong>and</strong> there shall none other be accounted of in comparison withHim,’ 444 did he describe Him as greater even than the Father? That the Son also is trueGod, John himself declares in the Epistle, ‘That we may know the only true God, <strong>and</strong> weare (in Him that is true, even) in his (true) Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, <strong>and</strong>433 Ps. cxviii. 21.434 Rom. iii. 4.435 1 Cor. i. 30.436 Ps. cx. 1.437 Ps. xlv. 8.438 Gen. xix. 24.439 Gen. i. 27.440 Ps. xviii. 31.441 Id. LXX.442 John i. 1.443 John xx. 28.444 Baruch iii. 35. The quoting of Baruch under the name of Jeremiah has been explained by the fact that inthe LXX. Baruch was placed with the Lamentations, <strong>and</strong> was regarded in the early Church as of equal authoritywith Jeremiah. It was commonly so quoted, e.g. by Irenæus, Clemens Alex<strong>and</strong>rinus, <strong>and</strong> Tertullian. So Theodoret,Dial. i. (in this edition, p. 165, where cf. note).71

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