{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010290.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010290.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010290.htm","text":"There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For \u201cthe Lord thy God,\u201d saith [the Scripture], \u201cis one Lord.\u201d 1305 And again, \u201cHath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father? 1306 And there is also one Son, God the Word. For \u201cthe only-begotten Son,\u201d saith [the Scripture], \u201cwho is in the bosom of the Father.\u201d 1307 And again, \u201cOne Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d 1308 And in another place, \u201cWhat is His name, or what His Son\u2019s name, that we may know?\u201d 1309 And there is also one Paraclete. 1310 For \u201cthere is also,\u201d saith [the Scripture], \u201cone Spirit,\u201d 1311 since \u201cwe have been called in one hope of our calling.\u201d 1312 And again, \u201cWe have drunk of one Spirit,\u201d 1313 with what follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] \u201cworketh one and the self-same Spirit.\u201d 1314 There are not then either three Fathers, 1315 or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to \u201cbaptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\u201d 1316 not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour.\ni.e., \u201cAdvocate\u201d or \u201cComforter;\u201d comp. John xiv. 16.\n116:1311 116:1312 116:1313 116:1314 116:1315 116:1316","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter II.\u2014Unity of the three...","type":"page"}