II. The ante-Nicene Church spoke of Christ as Divine

Value of testimony of martyrs. . . . Similar testimony of theologians . : : Their language not mere ‘rhetoric’ . . Objection from doubtful statements of some ante- Nicenes . . . e . . .
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xl Analysts of the Lectures.
Answer: a. They had not grasped all the intellectual bearings of the faith. 8. They were anxious to put strongly for- ward the Unity of God. : y. The Church’s real mind not doubtful
ITI. The Homoousion
a. not a development in the sense of an enlarge-
ment of the faith : -
β. necessary 1. in the Arian struggle : Ἶ 2. ἴῃ our own times. .
LECTURE VIIL
SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF OUR LORD’S DIVINITY.
Rom. viii. 32.
Theology must be, within limits, ‘inferential’ . : : What the doctrine of Christ’s Divinity involves