Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

WHEN CHRIST APPEARED.51unanswered question-was the witness which, firstin Him, and then in His followers, should make it-self heard over the earth, now held in captivity byfalsehood. And since Truth is His proper Nameand His personal Being from eternity, and by beingthe Truth He who spoke is the second Person inthe Godhead, the perfect Image of all Truth, let usconsider the import of His Name as the summing-up of the great antagonism which He then plantedon the earth.For He named Himself the Truth because Heis the Son and the Word of the Father. " Thusthe Father, as it were uttering Himself, begot HisWord, equal to Himself in all things. For Hewould not fully and perfectly have uttered Himself,if there were anything less or anything morein His Word than in Himself. . . . And thereforethis Word is truly " the Truth ; inasmuch as what-ever is in that knowledge of which He is begotten,is also in Himself; and whatsoever is not in it, isnot in Himself. . . . The Father and the Son knoweach other, the one by generating, the other bybeing generated."44 Thus it is that He is the perfectWord, ' the absolute Image of God ;*and beingthe Image of God He created man in the beginninga copy of that Image, and according .to itsresemblance, in that He created him in the indivisibleunity of a soul intelligent and willing-acreated copy of the Trinity in Unity. But though44 S. Aug. de Trin. 1. xv. c. 14, torn. viii. 984.