real difference between God the Father and God the Son. Some people in opposing Sabellius went too far. The great Origenes († 254) was one. If the Sabellians quoted the text: “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), he and his school answered with the other text “The Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). These extreme anti-Sabellians maintained that not only is God the Son really a different person from the Father, he is even less than the Father. They knew him to be the Son of God, but is not
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