By Water & Blood

Chapter 4: How he said that the Word and God are one and the same

Having in this way granted that the Word is in God, he next declares that he is one and the same with him, writing word for word thus (Nr. 62):

“For if the examination were of the Spirit alone, the Word would reasonably appear to be one and the same with God; but if the addition according to the flesh in the Saviour should be examined, the Godhead seems to be expanded (πλατύνεσθαι) by activity (ἐνέργεια) alone; so that, reasonably, the Monad is truly indivisible.”

And again, proceeding, he says (Nr. 64): “It is not, then, on account of exact agreement in all words and works, as Asterius said, that the Saviour says, ‘I and my Father are one,’ but because it is impossible for the Word to be divided from God, or God from his own Word.”

If, then, God and the Word in him were one and the same, as Marcellus thinks, then the one who came to be in the holy Virgin, and was made flesh, and became man, and suffered the things recorded, and died for our sins, was himself the God over all—the very thing which Sabellius dared to say, and for which the Church of God numbered him among the godless and blasphemers.