1. God saw Himself fully in the mirror of His essence
And that was by the act of intellect, so He was imprinted

2. And by this He established a substantial image
Since attributes cannot be separated from His essence

3. So from His rational intellect He brought forth a word
That is a Son to Him, called His Son and Offspring

4. Begotten by understanding, alive resembling Him
Identical to His source, indeed one with Him in essence

5. And to understand the Father is sufficient, fertile satisfaction
To a purpose that does not accept infinite regression

6. So the Father remains ever begetting Him, the Son
As the radiance of the sun emanates its ray

7. Thus our word in our intellect is an attribute, verily
It fades, and consciousness empties what it contained

8. But in the divine intellect is a substance
Free of defect, eternal, lofty in elevation

9. By it He loved and by it His Son
Each loved the other to the extent of capacity

10. And that love in them both never ceased
Reciprocating union, endless in perpetuity

11. Though it is the act of will in both
To unite essence, not dual or multitude

12. By it both breathed the Comforting Spirit, each
With the power of one act working through them

13. So the Father is the First Cause, primal
And original, and the Son fulfilled its branch

14. And the Son is a caused cause
By the pouring forth of the Spirit, in nature not convention

15. And the Spirit is emanated from them both
Like a breath of love, whose affair is giving and grace

16. Transcendent above analogies and parables is a palm tree
The Father is its trunk, fertile its stature

17. Thus this trunk produced its fronds
Say verily the two brought forth the frond

18. Or the Father is a sun, and its ray and light
Are the Son and the Spirit, both sent as partners

19. Thus that light is from that ray, and that
Ray is from the sun which radiates its glimmer

20. Or the Father is fire, its glow the Son, its
Warmth the Spirit, for sublimeness the light not innovation

21. Or the Father is a spring, the Son its river
And their Spirit the pouring water, as is called

22. Or the soul has three powers, yet it
Is one in essence, believe and beware of deception

23. And brings forth two effects, the form of its understanding
And love of its will, so ignore its defect and beware

24. The rest of its form is that it
Was created in the image of God's essence innovation

25. So in God there is a single essence, and by it
Two processions, so listen, O youth, and hear keenly

26. The begetting of a Son from comprehending His essence
And breathing a Spirit from His all-encompassing love

27. Thus was the named divine essence
Triune in persons, unified in essence

28. It is the Father, the only Son, and His Spirit
A union in essence, not accepting multitude

29. Three unshared properties, if
You add what pertains to the two, lawfully

30. The relational terms become four in
Number, thus speech firmly established without splitting

31. Fatherhood of a Father, sonship in His Son
Procession of a Spirit, its effect came fourth

32. Add for the Father being without origin
You will see five rational terms, so magnify His making

33. For the Son is the Father's nature out of His essence
And for the Spirit this from the unity of essence is required

34. Thus the Son is called Begotten, and His Spirit
Is not begotten, thus be content with this restraint

35. Eve shall we not call the daughter of Adam
Though she came from him by what was taken, a rib

36. But rather we call his son he who is to him
By an act for which there is likeness in essence, not convention

37. And this Son is Firstborn, not as if His begetting
Was preceded by a begetting, that is abhorred innovation

38. But because before His begetting
There was no begetting, that should suffice to deter you

39. He is Firstborn in the divine intellect, as
He embodied from a firstborn, and did not accept planting

40. And united with the person between two natures
Of God and man, and we did not multiply essence

41. Disappeared the completion of the plan of our salvation
And his substitution in his death did us benefit

42. He ascended on high, and the apostles gaze at him
And gained for us the supreme intercession with the Sublime Father

43. And he sent the Comforting Spirit to his apostles
As his promise, and the eye from it watches over them

44. And the Spirit's gifts are not but his essence
He gave them and granted them his seven gifts

45. Like tongues of fire settling upon them
Endowing them with support, removing from them disgrace

46. And they had feared the wolves, but became
By the transformational power of the seven, they will not fear

47. And they were men of faint frightened spirit
But came forth emboldened by the Spirit's hands, they will not dread violence

48. Men without armor, but when equipped
With the Spirit as aid for Him, they donned armor

49. And they had been blindly stumbling, their chests
Became illuminated with guidance, abundantly pouring knowledge

50. With feet firm in the footing of preaching they went
With every steadiness not calling their feet

51. I avoid the people of discord and what they came with
In the procession of the Spirit, and count them crippled

52. For every misguided one claims rectitude and surety
Worthy that you pelt his ignorance with tears

53. And be not deceived by their many vain prattlings
When they prattle nonsense, though prattling prosody

54. If they hesitate, then make a condition for their deception
And if they approach, then refrain, deceiving them with a slap

55. The protecting lairs of the innovators have crowded, so one who nears
A lair will not be safe from insult and wounding

56. Do not join ties and do not go near an ally
Lest he make you recoil stung, here I caution you

57. For that one, by God, his tongue is faithless
He is a venomous scorpion fascinated in playing with snakes

58. Rather strive towards the teaching of Peter's party
For none who strives with its teaching goes astray

59. I have adopted its belief as a safeguard through it
And one who rejects imitation necessitates splitting

60. I die upon it, and if I live then I
Hold fast to the protected faith in scarce company