I and the Father are one; offering to God through God

Origen went on: In the case of Christ united to the Father, neither the name 'flesh' nor the name 'spirit' should be set, but what is more honorable than these: the name 'God.' Hence let us understand I and the Father are one in this way.

Let us pray — on account of those who keep the dyad, and on account of those who introduce the monad — so that we neither fall into the opinion of those who have split from the church into a fantasy of monarchy, doing away with the Son from the Father and in power doing away with the Father as well, nor fall into another impious teaching, the one that denies the divinity of Christ.

How then do the divine scriptures speak, as in Before me no other God came to be, and after me there shall not be, and in I am, and there is no God besides me? With these utterances one must not suppose that the 'one' as applied to the God of all [lacuna] is apart from Christ; nor indeed Christ apart from God. But let us say that they are in the way Jesus says, I and my Father are one.

One must practice in these words, because many things have been stirred in this church. They often write that people should subscribe, and that the bishop should subscribe, and those under suspicion, and subscribe before the whole people, so that there may no longer be faction or any inquiry about this.

With God permitting, then, and secondly the bishops, and thirdly the presbyters and the people too, I will speak again of what is stirring me at this point. The offering is always made to God Almighty through Jesus Christ, as offering his divinity to the Father. Let the offering not be made twice, but to God through God.

I shall seem bold in speaking, as we pray to remain in the covenants. If it does not happen, you shall not take a man's face nor marvel at a ruler's face.