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As we believe, therefore, in God the Father Almighty, we ought to uphold the opinion that there is no creature which has not been created by the Almighty. And since He created all things by the Word, 1 which Word is also designated the Truth, and the Power, and the Wisdom of God, 2 --as also under many other appellations the Lord Jesus Christ, who 3 is commended to our faith, is presented likewise to our mental apprehensions, to wit, our Deliverer and Ruler, 4 the Son of God; for that Word, by whose means all things were founded, could not have been begotten by any other than by Him who founded all things by His instrumentality;--
