Discourses Against the Arians

Chapter I.—Introduction. Reason for writing; certain persons indifferent about Arianism; Arians not Christians, because sectaries always take the name of their founder. 1.

Ch. I–III — Introduction. Reason for writing; certain persons indifferen (¶1)

Chapter IV.—That the Son is Eternal and Increate. These attributes, being the points in dispute, are first proved by direct texts of Scripture. Concerning the ‘eternal power’ of God in Rom. i.

Ch. IV–VI — That the Son is Eternal and Increate. These attributes, bein (¶2)

Chapter VII.—Objections to the Foregoing Proof. Whether, in the generation of the Son, God made One that was already, or One that was not.

Ch. VII–IX — Objections to the Foregoing Proof. Whether, in the generatio (¶3)

Chapter X.—Objections Continued. How the Word has free will, yet without being alterable. He is unalterable because the Image of the Father, proved from texts. 35.

Ch. X–XII — Objections Continued. How the Word has free will, yet withou (¶4)

Chapter XIII.—Texts Explained; Thirdly, Hebrews i. 4. Additional texts brought as objections; e.g. Heb. i. 4; vii. 22. Whether the word ‘better’ implies likeness to the Angels; and ‘made’ or ‘become’ implies creation.

Ch. XIII — Texts Explained; Thirdly, Hebrews i. 4. Additional texts bro (¶5)

Chapter XIV.—Texts explained; Fourthly, Hebrews iii. 2 Introduction; the Regula Fidei counter to an Arian sense of the text; which is not supported by the word ‘servant,’ nor by ‘made’ which occurs in it; (how can the…

Ch. XIV–XVI — Texts explained; Fourthly, Hebrews iii. 2 Introduction; the (¶1)

Chapter XVII.—Introduction to Proverbs viii. 22 continued. Absurdity of supposing a Son or Word created in order to the creation of other creatures; as to the creation being unable to bear God’s immediate hand, God…

Ch. XVII–XIX — Introduction to Proverbs viii. 22 continued. Absurdity of su (¶2)

Chapter XX.—Texts Explained; Sixthly, Proverbs viii. 22 Continued. Our Lord is said to be created ‘for the works,’ i.e. with a particular purpose, which no mere creatures are ever said to be. Parallel of Isai. xlix.

Ch. XX–XXII — Texts Explained; Sixthly, Proverbs viii. 22 Continued. Our L (¶3)

Chapter XXIII.—Texts Explained; Seventhly, John xiv. 10 Introduction. The doctrine of the coinherence. The Father and the Son Each whole and perfect God.

Ch. XXIII–XXV — Texts Explained; Seventhly, John xiv. 10 Introduction. The d (¶1)

Chapter XXVI.—Introductory to Texts from the Gospels on the Incarnation. Enumeration of texts still to be explained. Arians compared to the Jews. We must recur to the Regula Fidei.

Ch. XXVI–XXVIII — Introductory to Texts from the Gospels on the Incarnation. E (¶2)

Chapter XXIX.—Texts Explained; Twelfthly, Matthew xxvi. 39; John xii. 27, &c. Arian inferences are against the Regula Fidei, as before. He wept and the like, as man. Other texts prove Him God. God could not fear.

Ch. XXIX–XXX — Texts Explained; Twelfthly, Matthew xxvi. 39; John xii. 27, (¶3)

1. The Word is God from God; for ‘the Word was God3275,’ and again, ‘Of whom are the Fathers, and of whom Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever.

§1–6 (¶1)

7. For as He takes our infirmities, not being infirm3314, and hungers not hungering, but sends up what is ours that it may be abolished, so the gifts which come from God instead of our infirmities, 3308 Deut. xiii. 4.

§7–11 (¶2)

12. And the same presumption will be proved against them concerning the Father; for if, when silent, He could not make, of necessity He has gained power by begetting, that is, by speaking. And whence has He gained it?

§12–17 (¶3)

18. Perhaps they will have so little shame as to say, that this utterance belongs not to the Son but to the Word; but from what preceded it appeared plainly that the speaker was the Son.

§18–23 (¶4)

24. But it is not so; for in truth much is said in the Old also about the Son, as in the second Psalm, ‘Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee3373;’ and in the ninth the title3374, Unto the ‘end concerning the…

§24–28 (¶5)

29. Thus in the Old also, statements are plainly made concerning the Son; at the same time it is superfluous to argue the point; for if what is not stated in the Old is of later date, let them who are thus disputatious,…

§29–34 (¶6)

35. But if Scripture often calls even the body by the name of Christ, as in the blessed Peter’s words to Cornelius, when he teaches him of ‘Jesus of Nazareth, whom God anointed with the Holy Ghost,’ and again to the…

§35–36 (¶7)