Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica; Theodoretus, Historia Religiosa

A red ornamental divider of scrollwork and dots. Title B Theology distinguished and at once united concerning the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit

That the Father Pater is the fountainhead deity; but the Son Hyios and the Spirit Pneuma are God-planted shoots of the God-bearing deity, if one must say so; and as it were flowers; and supersubstantial lights, we have received from the sacred oracles; but how these are, it is impossible to say or to conceive. —

That in almost every theological treatise; we see the super-archic [deity] reverently praised; as Monad and Unity, because of the simplicity and unity of the supernatural indivisibility, next; we address it as a unifying power; and as our divisible differences, being super-cosmically joined, we are gathered into a god-like monad and god-imitating union; as a Triad, because of the tri-hypostatic manifestation of the supersubstantial fertility, next; every triad in heaven and on earth, from which it is also named. —

And the deity that is above all is praised as Monad and Triad; for it is neither monad nor triad, as known by us or any other of existing things; but in order that we may truly praise both its super-cosmic nature and its God-bearing nature, by the triadic and unitary God-naming, we name the super-named; to existing things, the supersubstantial; but no monad or triad, nor number; nor unity or fertility; nor any other of existing things, or [something] known to any of existing things; but the hiddenness above all both word and mind, of the deity that is supersubstantially supersubstantial above all. It has no name; nor word; but is set apart from inaccessible [things]. —