The  very  form  then  of  the  faith  in  Christ  is  this  d  :  That
the  Son,  the  Word  of  God,  being  God,  (for  (  in  the  begin
ning  was  the  Word,  and  the  Word  was  God,')  being  the
Wisdom  and  Power  of  the  Father,  (for  *  Christ  is  the
Power  of  God  and  the  Wisdom  of  God,')  that  He,  I  say,
in  the  end  of  the  world,  was  made  Man  for  our  salvation  ;
(for  John  himself  having  said,  '  In  the  beginning  was  the
Word,'  a  little  below  said,  '  And  the  Word  was  made
Flesh  ;'  as  much  as  to  say,  He  was  made  man)  .....  and
having  become  Man,  and  taken  order  for  all  things  that
appertained  to  Him  as  Man,  and  having  subdued  and
abolished  our  enemy,  Death,  sitteth  now  at  the  right  hand
of  the  Father,  in  Whom  He  is,  the  Father  being  also  in
Him,  as  it  was  always,  and  is  for  ever.  Now,  this  form  is
from  the  Apostles  through  the  Fathers6.  For  the  rest,  it
is  the  duty  of  a  reader  of  the  Scripture  to  search  and
distinguish  when  it  speaks  of  the  Godhead  of  the  Word,
when,  on  the  other  hand,  of  His  human  attributes  ;  that  we


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392  The  Nicene  Fathers  had  in  view  the  Form  of  the  Faith.
