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  1 1 | INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOUL BUT TO GOD.~HAVING discussed with Hermogenes
  2 1 |        than of the inspiration of God, I now turn to the other
  3 1 |           been discovered without God? By whom has God ever been
  4 1 |          without God? By whom has God ever been found without
  5 1 |         according to the rules of God. At all events, you can
  6 1 |          the Author thereof. From God you may learn about that
  7 1 |      about that which you hold of God; but from none else will
  8 1 |            if you get it not from God. For who is to reveal that
  9 1 |           is to reveal that which God has hidden? To that quarter
 10 2 |     common intelligence wherewith God has been pleased to endow
 11 2 |        recalling all questions to God's inspired standard, with
 12 2 |           such as is learned from God; and that which is learned
 13 2 |          that which is learned of God is the sum and substance
 14 3 |      WORDS OF SCRIPTURE.~Would to God that no "heresies had been
 15 3 |        formed by the breathing of God, and not out of matter.
 16 3 |     informs us how that "the Lord God breathed on man's face the
 17 3 |            by that inspiration of God, of course. On this point,
 18 4 |       originates in the breath of God, it follows that we attribute
 19 8 |        corporeal; contributing to God's glory in their manifold
 20 8 |          being "in the Spirit" of God, beheld plainly the souls
 21 9 |         for her witness there was God; and the apostle most assuredly
 22 9 |         carefully consider, after God hath breathed upon the face
 23 10|         insight into the works of God been really attained, as
 24 10|        this, if you remember that God manifests His creative greatness
 25 10|         however, you suppose that God's wisdom has no capacity
 26 10|    according as they emanate from God or from the devil. Whenever,
 27 11|  DISTINGUISHED FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD.~But the nature of my present
 28 11|         the afflatus or breath of God. He, to be sure, goes flatly
 29 11|           breathed the) Spirit of God fell into sin, and then
 30 11|           the Spirit or breath of God. For this reason, we on
 31 11|           soul's Maker, or rather God, has told us nothing more
 32 11|         us nothing more than that God breathed on man's face the
 33 11|         as the following, wherein God Himself declares: "My Spirit
 34 11|        man. Indeed, the Spirit of God not more really "turned
 35 11|          as the spirit neither of God nor of the devil is naturally
 36 12|    principle of the universe--the god of Socrates, Valentinus' "
 37 13|        And that you may also have God's voucher on the subject,
 38 15|     authorities. We are taught by God concerning both these questions--
 39 15|            For, when one reads of God as being "the searcher and
 40 15|        secrets of the heart; when God Himself anticipates in His
 41 15|     Create in me a clean heart, O God," and Paul declares, "With
 42 15|         with which the purpose of God may agree; in other words,
 43 15|         part of our body to which God especially looks: so that
 44 16|        other than rational, which God produced on His own prompting;
 45 16|           existing in the soul of God Himself, if we were to ascribe
 46 16|        our soul has received from God, then the irrational element
 47 16|           be equally derived from God, as being a natural production,
 48 16|       natural production, because God is the author of nature.
 49 16|           and it is extraneous to God, to whom also the irrational
 50 16|          element (of the soul) to God alone, and subdivides it
 51 16|     element is confined to us and God)--I see that this point
 52 16|           accordance with reason. God will be angry, with perfect
 53 16|        and with reason, too, will God desire whatever objects
 54 16|        which is the production of God, but from that which the
 55 17|    obscure the good providence of God Himself: for the senses
 56 17|           the senses of man which God has appointed over all His
 57 18|            and in the presence of God Himself. For Plato maintains
 58 18|       that influence which either God on the one hand, or the
 59 18|          propounds) in a superior god. On this point, however,
 60 18|          however, of a (superior) god, we shall have to measure
 61 19|         because it is the work of God, which all other creatures
 62 19|       because it is the breath of God, which this (human soul)
 63 20|          and periods of life. And God. our Master, secretly produces
 64 20|        notions, they are the Lord God and His adversary the devil;
 65 20|     substance--even of that which God conferred on Adam, and made
 66 21|           on him afterwards, when God infused into him the ecstasy,
 67 21|           brambles." If so, then "God will not be able any longer
 68 21|         the power of the grace of God, more potent indeed than
 69 21|           this state is suited to God alone, as the only Being
 70 22|           rather the offspring of God than of matter. The names
 71 22|       expressly from the grace of God. We shall therefore now
 72 22|         sprung from the breath of God, immortal, possessing body,
 73 23|           a fiery angel, Israel's God; and ours, who then enclosed
 74 23|     supposes that the children of God, to whom had been assigned
 75 23|           had formerly lived with God in the heavens above, sharing
 76 24|           to put it on a par with God. He makes it unborn, which
 77 24|    incorpo-real-since he believed God to be the same--invisible,
 78 24|           if he wanted to call it God? We, however, who allow
 79 24|         who allow no appendage to God (in the sense of equality),
 80 24|        the soul as very far below God: for we suppose it to be
 81 24|       felicity, as the breath (of God), though not His spirit;
 82 24|           merit being accounted a god, by reason of all its qualities
 83 24|        equal to the attributes of God, it must then be subject
 84 26|          come to the limits which God has prescribed. I shall
 85 26|  Accordingly you read the word of God which was spoken to Jeremiah, "
 86 26|        belly, I knew thee." Since God forms us in the womb, He
 87 26|          creation, when "the Lord God formed man, and breathed
 88 26|        breath of life." Nor could God have known man in the womb,
 89 26|        stage? Certainly not. For "God is not the God of the dead,
 90 26|          not. For "God is not the God of the dead, but of the
 91 27|          received a blessing from God, and is blest by Him: "Be
 92 27|         fluid? From the breath of God first came the soul. But
 93 27|        what else is the breath of God than the vapour of the spirit,
 94 27|        true to the commandment of God, "Be fruitful, and multiply."
 95 28|            except of the one true God, by whom the prophets, and
 96 32|       used to dream that he was a god, and on that account, I
 97 32|          and pursuits (since even God says, "Man is like the beasts
 98 32|        the meaning of the word of God (which we have just quoted):
 99 32|        not in substance. Besides, God would not have actually
100 33|          this reputed judgment of God, and see whether human judgment
101 33|   especially divine. Accordingly, God's judgment will be more
102 35|         of your agreement, before God the Judge (for in this light
103 35|    external gifts by the grace of God and so may be transferred
104 36|         portion of Adam. Besides, God's afflatus would have animated
105 37|   ministers herein to the will of God, whatever may be the method
106 37|           to officiate herein for God. The embryo therefore becomes
107 37|           of time in reference to God, as if implying that the
108 37|           that the month in which God's image is sometimes produced
109 37|       tally with the day on which God's creation was completed
110 38|           of those aliments which God at the beginning conferred
111 39|         enter into the kingdom of God;" in other words, he cannot
112 41|           another nature having a god and father of its own, namely
113 41|        that which is derived from God is rather obscured than
114 41|         indeed, because it is not God; extinguished, however,
115 41|         be, because it comes from God. As therefore light, when
116 41|       there is something bad. For God alone is without sin; and
117 41|      Christ, since Christ is also God. Thus the divinity of the
118 41|     origin, it bears testimony to God (its author) in exclamations
119 41|        exclamations such as: Good God! God knows! and Good-bye!
120 41|   exclamations such as: Good God! God knows! and Good-bye! Just
121 43|        suggested by contemplating God, the Author of all the things
122 43|           is a reasonable work of God. Now reason presides over
123 43|     receive your instruction from God, (you will find) that the
124 43|        common to the race of man. God, indeed, has willed (and
125 44|     occurrence had been caused by God's own interposition, for
126 45|      inaugurated by ecstasy: "And God sent an ecstasy upon Adam,
127 46|        question I would say, When God shall permit: that admits
128 46|          very fond of saying that God, in His most watchful providence
129 46|         all search after the true God, by insinuating into their
130 47|   compared to the actual grace of God, as being honest, holy,
131 47|        even to the profane, since God, with grand impartiality, "
132 47|     indeed by an inspiration from God that Nebuchadnezzar dreamt
133 47|    mankind get their knowledge of God from dreams. Thus it is
134 47|          is that, as the mercy of God super-abounds to the heathen,
135 47|    evidently proceed neither from God, nor from diabolical inspiration,
136 48|       royal dishes, received from God, besides other wisdom, the
137 48|          that it is acceptable to God, since Daniel (to quote
138 48|           used in order to please God by humiliation, and not
139 48|    recommend its being wrought by God.~
140 49|       however, derive dreams from God. Why, then, did not the
141 49|         the dreaming faculty from God, because there is really
142 49|        which is now a stranger to God, since the gospel flashes
143 50|           settled by the voice of God; such is the contract with
144 50|      dying even in the service of God Himself, when, on the contrary,
145 50|           and to the house of the God of Jacob," who demands of
146 51|       through not being taught of God, maintain it with such beggarly
147 51|           can only conclude that) God everywhere manifests signs
148 51|         form the direct agency of God than from any relics of
149 52|          INTRUSION UPON NATURE AS GOD CREATED IT.~Such, then,
150 53|    apostle's it is "the temple of God," because it is in Christ.
151 55|            Now although Christ is God, yet, being also man, "He
152 55|           heard by the command of God,--when as yet those whom
153 55|          in Adam? A new death for God, even the extraordinary
154 55|         to lay down your life for God, as the Comforter counsels,
155 56|          shortened by the will of God, or some other powerful
156 57|        APPARENT IN THEIR EFFECTS. GOD ALONE CAN RAISE THE DEAD.~
157 57|  bestiarius, and sometimes even a god; always making it one of
158 57|         after (losing the living) God. God forbid, however, that
159 57|           losing the living) God. God forbid, however, that we
160 57|           show himself to be even God," and will exhibit "great
161 57|        himself to be a prophet of God, and especially to Saul,
162 57|          was, and where certainly God was not. Therefore it came
163 57|        the prophets. The power of God has, no doubt, sometimes
164 57|   resurrection, when the power of God recalls souls to their bodies,
165 58|        Because in the judgment of God its matter ought to be sure
166 58|           judicial appointment of God! Moreover, the soul executes
167 58|        flesh; for the judgment of God pursues even simple cogitations