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158271Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Exegetical Fragments — Of the One SubstanceStewart Dingwall Fordyce SalmondDionysius

VI.—Of the One Substance.[1]

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The plant that springs from the root is something distinct from that whence it grows up; and yet it is of one nature with it. And the river which flows from the fountain is something distinct from the fountain. For we cannot call either the river a fountain, or the fountain a river. Nevertheless we allow that they are both one according to nature, and also one in substance; and we admit that the fountain may be conceived of as father, and that the river is what is begotten of the fountain.[2]

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  1. ↑ That the Son is not different from the Father in nature, but connatural and consubstantial with Him. From the Panoplia of Euthymius Zigabenus in the Cod. xix. Nanianæ Biblioth.
  2. ↑ [See his explanations in the epistle to Dionysius p. 92, supra.]
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