BOOK I
CHAPTER VIII
Concerning the Holy Trinity.
We believe,
then, in One God, one beginning, having no beginning, uncreate, unbegotten,
imperishable and immortal, everlasting, infinite, uncircumscribed, boundless,
of infinite power, simple, uncompound, incorporeal, without flux, passionless,
unchangeable, unalterable, unseen, the fountain of goodness and justice, the
light of the mind, inaccessible; a power known by no measure, measurable only
by His own will alone (for all things that He wills He can, creator of
all created things, seen or unseen, of all the maintainer and preserver, for
all the provider, master and lord and king over all, with an endless and
immortal kingdom: having no contrary, filling all, by nothing encompassed, but
rather Himself the encompasser and maintainer and original possessor of the
universe, occupying all essences intact and extending beyond
all things, and being separate from all essence as being
super-essential and above all things and absolute God, absolute
goodness, and absolute fulness: determining all sovereignties and ranks,
being placed above all sovereignty and rank, above essence and life and word
and thought: being Himself very light and goodness and life and essence,
inasmuch as He does not derive His being from another, that is to say, of those
things that exist: but being Himself the fountain of being to all that is, of
life to the living, of reason to those that have reason; to all the cause of
all good: perceiving all things even before they have become: one essence, one
divinity, one power, one will, one energy, one beginning, one authority, one dominion,
one sovereignty, made known in three perfect subsistences anti adored with one
adoration, believed in and ministered to by all rational creation, united
without confusion and divided without separation (which indeed transcends
thought). (We believe) in Father and Son and Holy Spirit whereinto
also we have been baptized. For so our Lord commanded the Apostles to
baptize, saying, Baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.