Chapter III.—Two senses of the word Son, 1. adoptive; 2.
essential; attempts of Arians to find a third meaning between
these; e.g. that our Lord only was created immediately by God
(Asteriuss view), or that our Lord alone partakes the Father.
The second and true sense; God begets as He makes, really;
though His creation and generation are not like mans; His
generation independent of time; generation implies an internal,
and therefore an eternal, act in God; explanation of Prov. viii.
22. 6. They say then what the others held and dared to maintain
before them; “Not always p. 154 Father, not always Son; for the
Son was not before His generation, but, as others, came to be
from nothing; and in consequence God was not always Father of
the Son; but, when the Son came to be and was created, then was
God called His Father. For the Word is a creature and a work,
and foreign and unlike the Father in essence; and the Son is
neither by nature the Fathers true Word, nor His only and true
Wisdom; but being a creature and