{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/006/0060042.htm","path":"chr/ecf/006/0060042.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/006/0060042.htm","text":"------------\nThe plant that springs from the root is something distinct from that whence it grows up; and yet it is of one nature with it. And the river which flows from the fountain is something distinct from the fountain. For we cannot call either the river a fountain, or the fountain a river. Nevertheless we allow that they are both one according to nature, and also one in substance; and we admit that the fountain may be conceived of as father, and that the river is what is begotten of the fountain.2","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VI: VI.--Of the One Substance.","type":"page"}