Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts;
I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
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Athanasius the Apostolic
AD 373
For God is one and only and first. But this is not said to the denial of the Son; perish the thought. For he is in that One and First and Only, as being of that One and Only and First the only Word and Wisdom and Radiance. And he too is the First, as the fullness of the godhead of the First and Only, being whole and full God.
