do we teach? That the Son is not unbegotten or a portion of the unbegotten in any manner or from any substratum, but that by the will and counsel of the Father he subsisted before times and ages, full of grace and truth, God, only-begotten, unchangeable. (5) And before he was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not. For he was not unbegotten. But we are persecuted because we say, “The Son has a beginning, but God is without beginning.” Because of this we are persecuted because we
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