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There are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to “baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,”21 not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour.<ref>Pseudo-Ignatius of Antioch, “The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians,” in The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, vol. 1, The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 116.</ref> | |||
=The Historical Record of the Church= | =The Historical Record of the Church= | ||