Theology Of Paul

THEOLOGY OF PAUL
M.M.NINAN
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"God was in the beginning; but the beginning, we have been taught, is the power of the Logos. For the Lord of the
universe, who is Himself the necessary ground of all being, inasmuch as no creature was yet in existence, was
alone; but inasmuch as He was all power, Himself the necessary ground of things visible and invisible, with Him
were all things; with Him, by Logos-power, the Logos Himself also, who was in Him, subsists. And by His simple
will the Logos springs forth; and the Logos, not coming forth in vain, becomes the first-begotten work of the
Father. Him (the Logos) we know to be the beginning of the world. But He came into being by participation, not by
abscission; for what is cut off is separated from the original substance, but that which comes by participation,
making its choice of function, does not render him deficient from whom it is taken. For just as from one torch
many fires are lighted, but the light of the first torch is not lessened by the kindling of many torches, so the Logos,
coming forth from the Logos-power of the Father, has not divested of the Logos-power Him who begat Him."
Tatian the Syrian, Oration Against the Greeks, 5 (c. A.D. 175).
"But the Son of God is the Logos of the Father, in idea and in operation; for after the pattern of Him and by Him
were all things made, the Father and the Son being one. And, the Son being in the Father and the Father in the
Son, in oneness and power of spirit, the understanding and reason of the Father is the Son of God. But if, in your
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