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Chapter III.

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English translation and editorial credits: Augustus Henry Eugene de Romestin, Eugene de Romestin (assistant), Henry Thomas Forbes Duckworth (assistant).

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Date uncertain | Ambrose of Milan

46. Plurality, therefore, is excluded, but the unity is not destroyed. But as, on the one hand, when we read of the Lord Jesus, we do not dissociate the Father, as I have already said, from the prerogative of ruling, because He has that in common with the Son; so, on the other hand, when we read of the only true God, the Father, we cannot sever the Son from the prerogative of the only true God, for He has that in common with the Father.

Complete source paragraph · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter III., source paragraph 11 · Original source

Date uncertain | Ambrose of Milan

they consider He should neither be worshipped nor served? Or would they sooner go in company with Paul, who in serving and worshipping Christ did not disown in word and heart the only true God, Whom he acknowledged with dutiful service?

Complete source paragraph · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter III., source paragraph 13 · Original source