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Four Discourses against the Arians

St Athanasius, NPNF II.4

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2. Discourse 1, 1. Introduction
3. Discourse 1, 2. Extracts from the Thalia of Arius
4. Discourse 1, 3. The Importance of the Subject
5. Discourse 1, That the Son is Eternal and Increate. These Attributes, Being the Points in…
6. Discourse 1, 5. Subject Continued
7. Discourse 1, 6. Subject Continued
8. Discourse 1, Objections to the Foregoing Proof. Whether, in the Generation of the Son,…
9. Discourse 1, 8. Objections Continued
10. Discourse 1, 9. Objections Continued
11. Discourse 1, Objections Continued. How the Word Has Free Will, Yet Without Being…
12. Discourse 1, 11. Texts Explained; And First, Phil. II. 9, 10
13. Discourse 1, 12. Texts Explained; Secondly, Psalm xlv. 7, 8
14. Discourse 1, 13. Texts Explained; Thirdly, Hebrews i. 4
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16. Discourse 2, 14. Texts Explained; Fourthly, Hebrews iii. 2
17. Discourse 2, Texts Explained; Fifthly, Acts ii. 36. The Regula Fidei Must Be Observed;…
18. Discourse 2, Introductory to Proverbs viii. 22, that the Son is Not a Creature
19. Discourse 2, 17. Introduction to Proverbs viii. 22 Continued
20. Discourse 2, 18. Introduction to Proverbs viii. 22 Continued
21. Discourse 2, 19. Texts Explained; Sixthly, Proverbs viii. 22
22. Discourse 2, Texts Explained; Sixthly, Proverbs viii. 22 Continued. Our Lord is Said to…
23. Discourse 2, 21. Texts Explained; Sixthly, Proverbs viii. 22, Continued
24. Discourse 2, Texts Explained; Sixthly, the Context of Proverbs viii. 22 Vz. 22–30
25. Discourse 3, 23. Texts Explained; Seventhly, John xiv. 10
26. Discourse 3, 24. Texts Explained; Eighthly, John xvii. 3. and the Like
27. Discourse 3, 25. Texts Explained; Ninthly, John x. 30; xvii. 11, &c.
28. Discourse 3, Introductory to Texts from the Gospels on the Incarnation. Enumeration of…
29. Discourse 3, 27. Texts Explained; Tenthly, Matthew xi. 27; John iii. 35, &c.
30. Discourse 3, 28. Texts Explained; Eleventhly, Mark xiii. 32 and Luke ii. 52
31. Discourse 3, Texts Explained; Twelfthly, Matthew xxvi. 39; John xii. 27, &c. Arian…
32. Discourse 3, 30. Objections Continued, as in Chapters vii.—x
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34. Discourse 4, §§1–5: The Substantiality of the Word Proved from Scripture. If the One…
35. Discourse 4, §§6, 7: When the Word and Son Hungered, Wept, and Was Wearied, He Acted as…
36. Discourse 4, §8: Arians Date the Son’s Beginning Earlier Than Marcellus, &c.
37. Discourse 4, §§9, 10: Unless Father and Son are Two in Name Only, or as Parts and So Each…
38. Discourse 4, §§11, 12: Marcellus and His Disciples, Like Arians, Say that the Word Was,…
39. Discourse 4, §§13, 14: Such a Doctrine Precludes All Real Distinctions of Personality in…
40. Discourse 4, §§15–24: Since the Word is from God, He Must Be Son. Since the Son is from…
41. Discourse 4, 25. §25: Marcellian Illustration from 1 Cor. xii. 4, Refuted
42. Discourse 4, §§26–36: That the Son is the Co-existing Word, Argued from the New…