Reference numbers Urk. 13
Doc. 7
CPG 3556
Incipit τί μέμφεσθε Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῷ πάπᾳ
Date c. 322
Ancient source Athanasius, On the Synods 17.6
Modern edition used H-G. Opitz, Athanasius Werke, band 2 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1940).

And [George] wrote to the Arians:

Why do you find fault with Bishop Alexander for saying that the Son is from the Father?  For you also should not be afraid to say that the Son is from God.  For if the Apostle wrote ‘All things are from God’ [1 Cor 11:12], (though all things have clearly been made from nothing), and if also the Son is also a creature (κτίσμα), and he too was made, then the Son can can be said to be “from God,” just as all things are said to be “from God.”

Translation by AJW

Also translated in Hanson, p. 44

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