Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 04 — Section 970
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 4
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25. The teaching of Dionysius on the Word (continued). For with reference to the madness of Arius when he says that the Word which is in God is distinct from that one of which John said, In the beginning was the Word' (Joh. i. 1), and that God's own wisdom within Himself is not the same as that to which the Apostle refers as Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1 Cor. i. 24), Dionysius resists and denounces any such error, as you may see in the second book where he writes on the subject as follows: "In the beginning was the Word;" but it was not Word that sent forth the Word…
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