light); and, in the case of the Son, we do not think of him as without source but the source of all things. But when I speak of “source,” do not think of time or imagine something midway between Creator and created, or by a false interposition split the nature of beings that are coeternal and conjoined. For if time were older than the Son, it would clearly be the first product of the Father’s causal activity, and how can one who is in time be the creator of all time? And in what sense is he in fact
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