Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 111:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 310, footnote 7 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3601 (In-Text, Margin)

... surely our Salvation. What else could it be? Since then we find here clearly both the Created and the Begetteth Me, the argument is simple. Whatever we find joined with a cause we are to refer to the Manhood, but all that is absolute and unoriginate we are to reckon to the account of His Godhead. Well, then, is not this “Created” said in connection with a cause? He created Me, it so says, as the beginning of His ways, with a view to his works. Now, the Works of His Hands are verity and judgment;[Psalms 111:7] for whose sake He was anointed with Godhead; for this anointing is of the Manhood; but the “He begetteth Me” is not connected with a cause; or it is for you to shew the adjunct. What argument then will disprove that Wisdom is called a creature, in ...