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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO.On God the Father.
The Father is the first person in the most holy Trinity, who brings forth His eternal Word, and together with the Son spirates the Holy Spirit.He is called Father not tropically but properly.For just as He properly is, lives, understands, wills, acts: so also He properly begets, though He does not beget as bodily things do.
Hence wisely Basil the Great in book 1 against Eunomius: I judge that no dogma is more important and greater than that faith in the Father and in the Son is in the gospel of our salvation.
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CAPUT VIGESIMUM SECUNDUM, De DEO PATRE. Pater est prima persona in sacrosancta Trinitate, quae sermonem suum aeternum gignit, et una cum Filio Spiritum sanctum spirat. Pater dicitur non tropice sed proprie. Sicut enim proprie est, vivit, intelligit, vult, agit: ita et proprie gignit, etsi non ita gignat ut res corporeae. Hinc sapienter Basilius Magnus libro I contra Eunomium: nullum potius et majus dogma quam in Patrem et in Filium fidem evangelio nostrae salutis inesse arbitror.