[1:1] Of the One Substance: VI.
[1:2] —Of the One Substance.
[1:3] The plant that springs from the root is something distinct from that whence it grows up; and yet it is of one nature with it.
[1:4] And the river which flows from the fountain is something distinct from the fountain.
[1:5] For we cannot call either the river a fountain, or the fountain a river.
[1:6] Nevertheless we allow that they are both one according to nature, and also one in substance; and we admit that the fountain may be conceived of as father, and that the river is what is begotten of the fountain.