chance! But what else can this be, except God? Thus reason, which is from God
and implanted in all of us, which is our first law and is participated in by all, leads
us to God through the things we can see.”
28, 31
“We know that there are certain Angels and Archangels, Thrones, Dominations,
Principalities, Powers, Splendors, Ascents, Intelligent Virtues or Intelligences,
natures pure and unalloyed; immovable to evil, or so moved only with difficulty;
circling ever in chorus around the First Cause.”
Third Theological Oration (380 AD):
29, 16
“Father is the name neither of an essence nor of an action, but of the relation
which describes how the Father stands to the Son, and the Son to the Father. With
us these names make known a genuine and real relation; and here too they signify
an identity of nature of the Begotten to the Begetter.”
Fourth Theological Oration (380 AD):
30, 15
“Their tenth objection is ignorance, the statement that the final day and hour is
known to none, not even the Son, except the Father. But how is it possible that
Wisdom should be ignorant of any of those things that are?…How indeed could He
know so accurately those things which are to precede that hour and which are to
take place at the end, but be ignorant of the hour itself…If , then, we may proceed
from the example of what is seen to what is known, is it not perfectly plain to
everyone that He does know as God, but says that, as Man, He knows not?”
Against the Arians and About Myself (380 AD):
33, 17
“Remember your profession of faith. In whose name were you baptized? In the
Father’s name? Jewish, but good. In the Son’s name? Good; no longer Jewish, but
not yet perfect. In the Holy Spirit’s name? Excellent! This is perfect!”
On the Theophany or Birthday of Christ (380 AD):
38, 13
“He was conceived by the Virgin, who had first been purified by the Spirit in soul
and body; for as it was fitting that childbearing should receive its share of honor,
so it was necessary that virginity should receive even greater honor.”
Oration on Holy Baptism (381 AD):
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