Augustine of Hippo on the Son being from and equal to the Father

[Reformed Covenanter]

For, if God granted to temporal and passible things to beget what they are, how much more did He who is eternal and impassible beget no other than He is Himself: one Father an only Son, to our unutterable wonder, since He begot Him with no suffering on His part, and with such complete equality to Himself that the Son does not excel Him either in power or in age!

All He has and can do He attributes to His Father, not to Himself, because He is not of Himself but of the Father. For, He is equal to the Father and this also He received from the Father, but He did not so receive His being equal as if He had previously been unequal and was born equal, but, as He is always born, so He is always equal. Therefore, He did not beget one unequal and add equality to Him at birth, but He gave it to Him in begetting Him because He begot Him equal, not unequal. Therefore, being in the form of God, it was not robbery in Him to be equal to God; since He assumed this at birth, He did not presume it by pride.

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Augustine of Hippo on the Son being from and equal to the Father

For, if God granted to temporal and passible things to beget what they are, how much more did He who is eternal and impassible beget no other than He is Himself: one Father an only Son, to our unut…

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