Ambrose, Bishop, said; ‘John said in his epistle; 1 S. John v. 20. This is the true God. Deny this.’
Palladius said; ‘When I tell you that He is true Son, I acknowledge also a true Godhead.’
Ambrose, Bishop, said; ‘In this also there is evasion; for you art wont to speak of one only and true Godhead in such manner as to say that it is the divinity of the Father only, and not that of the Son also, which is one only and true. If then you wish to speak plainly, as you refer me to the Scriptures, say what the Evangelist John said; This is the true God, or deny that he hath said it.’
Palladius said; ‘Besides the Son there is none other that is begotten.’
21. EUSEBIUS, Bishop, said; ‘Is Christ very God, according to the faith of all and to the Catholic profession, or in your opinion is He not very God?’
Palladius said; ‘He is the Power of our God.’
Ambrose, Bishop said; ‘You do not speak frankly; andso anathema to him who does not confess that the Son of God is very Lord.’
All the Bishops said; ‘Let him be accounted anathema, who will not call Christ, the Son of God, very Lord.’
22. The reader continued; “Alone true, Who alone hath immortality.”
Ambrose, Bishop, said; ‘Has the Son of God immortality, or has He it not, in respect of His Godhead?’