[516] 'Deum nemo vidit umquam: nisi unicus filius solus, sinum patris ipse enarravit.'--(Comp. Tertullian:--'Solus filius patrem novit et sinum patris ipse exposuit' (Prax. c. 8. Cp. c. 21): but he elsewhere (ibid. c. 15) exhibits the passage in the usual way.) Clemens writes,--[Greek: tote epopteuseis ton kolpon tou Patrus, hon ho monoogenes huios Theos monos exegesato] (956), and in the Excerpt. Theod. we find [Greek: outos ton kolpon ton Patros exegesato ho Soter] (969). But this is unintelligible until it is remembered that our Lord is often spoken of by the Fathers as [Greek: he dexia tou hypsistou ... kolpos de tes dexias ho Pater]. (Greg. Nyss. i. 192.) [517] Ps. 440 (--[Greek: ho]): Marcell. 165, 179, 273. [518] Marcell. 334: Theoph. 14. [519] Marcell. 132. Read on to p. 134. [520] Opp. ii. 466. [521] Opp. iii. 23, 358. [522] Greg. Nyss. Opp. i. 192, 663 ([Greek: Theos pantos ho monogenes, ho en tois kolpois on tou Patros, outos eipontos tou Ioannou]). Also ii. 432, 447, 450, 470, 506: always [Greek: en tois kolpois]. Basil, Opp. iii. 12. [523] Basil, Opp. iii. 14, 16, 117: and so Eunomius (ibid. i. 623). [524] Contra Eunom. _I have noted_ ninety-eight places. [525] Cyril (iv. 104) paraphrases St. John i. 18 thus:--[Greek: autos gar Theos on ho monogenes, en kolpois on tou theou kai patros, tauten pros hemas epoiesato ten exegesin]. Presently (p. 105), he says that St. John [Greek: kai "monogene theon" apokalei ton huion, kai "en kolpois" einai phesi tou patros]. But on p. 107 he speaks quite plainly: [Greek: "ho monogenes," phesi, "Theos, ho on eis ton kolpon tou patros, ekeinos exegesato." epeide gar ephe "monogene" kai "Theon," tithesin euthys, "ho on en tois kolpois tou patros."]--So v. 137, 768. And yet he reads [Greek: huios] in v. 365, 437: vi. 90. [526] He uses it seventeen times in his Comm. on Isaiah (ii. 4, 35, 122, &c.), and actually so reads St. John i. 18 in one place (Opp. vi. 187). Theodoret once adopts the phrase (Opp. v. 4). [527] De Trin. 76, 140, 37a:--27. [528] P. 117. [529] Traditional Text, p. 113, where the references are given. [530] Who quoted Arius' words:--'Subsistit ante tempora et aeones _plenus Deus, unigenitus,_ et immutabilis.' But I cannot yet find Tischendorf's reference. [531] The reading [Greek: Huios] is established by unanswerable evidence. [532] The Gnostics Basilides and Valentinus were the direct precursors of Apolonius, Photinus, Nestorius, &c., in assailing the Catholic doctrine of the Incarnation. Their heresy must have been actively at work when St. John wrote his first (iv. 1, 2, 3) and second (ver. 7) Epistles. [533] Rev. xxii. 19. [534] [Greek: Epipedosin hemin hoi hairetikoi legontes; idou ouk anelabe sarka ho Christos; ho deut. gar phesin anthr. ho k. ex ouranou.] Chrys. iii. 114 b.