fatherly advice

Long-standing custom calls for referring to the town chairman as mayor, even though we don't have a mayor.

If the Son were uncreated, Arius reasoned, if he were always existing, then the Son would also be ungenerate and unbegotten, just as the Father is; the result would be a Son who is a Father and a second first principle beside the Father, and this is absurd.

Thus, under a plausible and specious humility, circumscribing the bounds of human reason, neglecting its powers, and leaving it wholly devoid of that sustentation which would lead to its expansion and culture.