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| The Scriptures Relied on by Praxeas to Support His Heresy But Few. They are Mentioned by Tertullian.
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Chapter
XX.—The Scriptures Relied on by Praxeas to Support His Heresy But
Few. They are Mentioned by Tertullian.
But I must take some further pains to rebut their
arguments, when they make selections from the Scriptures in support of
their opinion, and refuse to consider the other points, which obviously
maintain the rule of faith without any infraction of the unity of the
Godhead, and with the full admission8005
of the
Monarchy. For as in the Old Testament Scriptures they lay hold of
nothing else than, “I am God, and beside me there is no
God;”8006
so in the Gospel
they simply keep in view the Lord’s answer to Philip, “I
and my Father are one;”8007
and, “He that
hath seen me hath seen the Father; and I am in the Father, and the
Father in me.”8008
They would have the
entire revelation of both Testaments yield to these three passages,
whereas the only proper course is to understand the few statements in
the light of the many. But in their contention they only act on the
principle of all heretics. For, inasmuch as only a few testimonies are
to be found (making for them) in the general mass, they pertinaciously
set off the few against the many, and assume the later against the
earlier. The rule, however, which has been from the beginning
established for every case, gives its prescription against the later
assumptions, as indeed it also does against the
fewer.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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