Theological Dissertation on the Theologoumena of Macarius Magnes

"the Trinity in unity, and the one Divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, etc." EUSEBIUS explained this notion of "Monarchy," which was customary among the ancient Fathers of the Christian Church and opposed to the multitude of Gentile gods, in his Evangelical Preparation, Book I, Chapter 4: "For it was of divine and ineffable power that, through his word and the doctrine proposed by him concerning the Monarchy of the ONE GOD over all, the human race was freed simultaneously from erroneous and demonic activity and from the polyarchy of the nations." These words, not sufficiently carefully rendered in the common Latin version of George of Trebizond, were displayed much more correctly by IO. CASP. SUICER in his Ecclesiastical Thesaurus, Part I, p. 373: "It was of divine and ineffable power that Christ, through his word and the doctrine of the one Divinity of the ONE God of the universe proposed, freed the human race from erroneous and demonic efficacy and from the pagan multitude of gods." Finally, from more recent authors, I shall add the words of HENR. VALESIUS in his Notes to Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, Book V, Chapter 20, p. 101: "The ancient Christians were accustomed to use the word Monarchy frequently as often as they disputed against the Gentiles. And under that title they published several books, to show that one God is the creator and King of all things. And they assigned the Monarchy to God the Father, but the oikonomia dispensation/administration to the Son and the Holy Spirit, as Tertullian teaches against Praxeas, and Tatian against the Greeks."

§. VI.

§. VI. Continuation of the same argument, from the words of D. Paul, 1 Cor. VIII. 5-6.

Since, therefore, that Greek Philosopher, debating with our Macarius, argued from the comparison of the Monarch Adrian with the Monarch God that God would not be properly called a Monarch unless he ruled over Gods who were of the same nature as himself; and that those whom Christians call angels are called gods by the Gentiles and are partners of the divine nature: our Macarius Magnes defends the true nature of divine Monarchy against the sophistries of this philosopher.