- view that "there was once when he was not" was
rejected to
maintain the
coeternity of the Son with the Father. The view that he was "mutable or
subject to...
- not
posterior to it.
Understand then that Brightness, as
revealing the
coeternity of the Son with the Father; Word as
proving the imp****ibility of His birth...
- account: viz. to show us the
intimate converse of the Only-Begotten, and His
coeternity with the Father." Augustine: "In the
bosom of the Father, i. e. in the...