Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 04 — Section 1848
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 4
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23. For if simply, when made Man, He has become Son, the becoming Man is the cause. And if the Man is cause of His being Son, or both together, then the same absurdities result. Next, if He is first Word and then Son, it will appear that He knew the Father afterwards, not before; for not as being Word does He know Him, but as Son. For No one knoweth the Father but the Son.' And this too will result, that He has come afterwards to be in the bosom of the Father [3368] ,' and afterwards He and the Father have become One; and afterwards is, He that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father [3369]…
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