Novatian, On the Trinity 9
The same rule of truth teaches us to believe, after the Father, in the Son of God as well — Christ Jesus, our Lord and God, yet still the Son of God. This God is both one and alone, the Creator of all things, as I have already stated above. We read in the Old Testament and see fulfilled in the New Testament that this Jesus Christ — let me say again, the Son of this God — was promised long ago and now appears as the embodied truth that fills every shadow and figure of the sacraments. Abraham and David, no less than the ancient prophecies and the Gospels themselves, bear witness to him. Genesis says, "I will give to your seed" (Genesis); it portrays a man wrestling with Jacob (Genesis); and it declares, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it has been promised, and he shall be the expectation of the nations" (Genesis). Moses says, "Provide another whom you will send" (Deuteronomy); and again he testifies, "God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers; hear him as you would me" (Deuteronomy); and again, "You will see your life hanging before you night and day, and you will not believe him" (Deuteronomy). Isaiah announces, "A shoot shall come forth from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow from his roots" (Isaiah); the same prophet says, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son" (Isaiah); he places the healings that will come from him: "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute shall sing" (Isaiah); he proclaims the virtues of his patience: "His voice shall not be heard in the streets; a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench" (Isaiah); he describes his Gospels: "I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the steadfast, sure mercies of David" (Isaiah); he prophesies that the nations will believe in him: "Behold, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Nations that do not know you shall run to you, and peoples that do not know you shall flee to you" (Isaiah). The same prophet cries out concerning his passion: "He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth" (Isaiah); he describes the blows and wounds of his scourging: "By his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah); or his humility: "He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" (Isaiah); or that the people would not believe: "I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people" (Isaiah); or that he will rise from the dead: "In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; he shall reign, and the nations shall hope in him, and his rest shall be glorious" (Isaiah); or concerning the time of resurrection: "We will find him ready like the dawn" (Hosea); or that he will sit at the right hand of the Father: "The Lord says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool'" (Psalm); or when the possessor of all things is established: "Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession" (Psalm); or that he is shown to be the judge of all: "Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son" (Psalm). I will not pursue more examples here, for the things announced about Christ are well known not only to all heretics but even to those who hold the truth.
Latin
Eadem regula ueritatis docet nos credere post patrem etiam in filium dei, Christum Iesum, dominum deum nostrum, sed dei filium; huius dei qui et unus et solus est, conditor scilicet rerum omnium, ut iam et superius expressum est. hunc enim Iesum Christum, iterum dicam huius dei filium, et in ueteri testamento legimus esse repromissum et in nouo testamento animaduertimus exhibitum, omnium sacramentorum umbras et figuras de praesentia corporatae ueritatis implentem. hunc enim Abrahae filium, hunc Dauid, non minus et uetera praedicta et euangelia testantur. ipsa Genesis, cum dicit: dabo et semini tuo; hunc quando luctatum ostendit hominem cum iacob; hunc, quando dicit: on deficiet princeps de Iuda, neque dux de Femoribus eius, donec ueniat is cui repromissum est, et ipse erit exspectatio gentium. hunc Moyses, cum dicit: prouide alium quem mittas; hunc idem, quando testatur, prophetam uobis, dicendo, suscitabit deus ex fratribus uestris: eum quasi me audite; hunc, quando dicit: videbitis uitam uestram pendentem nocte ac die, et non credetis ei. hunc Esaias: prodiet uirga de radice Iesse, et flos de radice etus ascendet; hunc eundem, quando dicit: ecce uirgo concipiet et pariet filium,; hunc, quando sanitates ab eo futuras collocat dicens: tunc aperientur oculi caecorum, et aures surdorum audient: tunc saliet claudus ut ceruus, et Diserta erit lingua mutorum; hunc, quando patientiae uirtutes expromit dicens: non audietur in plateis uox eius; harundinem quassatam non conteret, et linum fumigans non exstinguet; hunc, quando eius euangelia descripsit: e dzsponam uobis testamentum aeternum, sancta Daud fidelia; hunc, quando gentes in ipsum credituras prophetat: ecce posui eum in principium et praecipientem gentibus. gentes quae te non nouerunt inuocabunt te, et populi qui te nesciunt ad te confugient; hunc eundem, quando ad passionem eius exclamat dicens: sicut ouis ad occisionem ductus est, et sicut agnus coram tondente se sine uoce, sic non aperuit os suum in humilitate; hanc quando flagrorum eius ictus plagasque descripsit: liuore eius nos sanati sumus; aut humilitatem: et uidimus eum, et non erat ei species neque honor. homo in plaga et sciens ferre infirmitatem; aut quod populus non erat crediturus: tota die expandi manus meas ad populum non credentem; aut quod resurrecturus a mortuis: e erit in illa die radix Iesse, et qui surget imperare gentibus, in eum gentes sperabunt, et erit requies eius honor; aut cum tempus resurrectionis: quasi diluculo paratum inueniemus eum; aut quod sessurus ad dextram patris: dixit dominus domino meo: sede ad dexteram meam, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum; aut cum possessor omnium collocatur: postula a me, et dabo tibi gentes hereditatem tuam, et possessionem tuam terminos terrae; aut quod iudex omnium ostenditur: deus iudicium tuum regi da, et iustitiam tuam filio regis. nec hoc in loco plura persequar, quae annuntiata de Christo omnibus haereticis sed et ipsis ueritatem tenentibus magis nota sunt.