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 1 1     |        be prejudged as heresies, being such as were, by the more
 2 1     |         really makes Him another being, nay, he takes from Him
 3 2     | dissoluble into parts,, because, being the Lord, He is indivisible,
 4 2     |         He defines the Lord as a being who is good, nay, very good,
 5 3     |         APPLICABLE TO THE DIVINE BEING, LORD AND FATHER ARE ONLY
 6 4     |    equally eternal, set forth as being without a beginning, without
 7 4     |         be ascribed to any other being, it will no longer be the
 8 4     |          along with Him, to that being also to which it is ascribed.
 9 4     |          it is shared by another being. Now, since He is God, it
10 5     |         is permitted to no other being to possess anything of God.
11 6     |         is still safe to Him, of being the only God, and the First,
12 6     |          Lord of all things, and being incomparable to any qualities
13 6     |         will be such a God as He being unmade, unborn, without
14 6     |     Matter the condition of Both being still common to Them. The
15 6     |         which it is incapable of being compared with God? That
16 6     |          compared with God? That Being, in which occur all the
17 7     |        is a greater and superior Being, I meet him with this prescription,
18 7     |     Beings which are eternal, as being unborn and unmade God and
19 7     |      shall be found in Matter as being equally unborn and unmade
20 8     |          for the very purpose of being able to make use of it.
21 9     |        instead of a bad one. But being undoubtedly good, only not
22 9     |         belong to God at all, as being evil, it follows, that when
23 10    |      ABSURDLY REDUCES THE DIVINE BEING. HE DOES NOTHING SHORT OF
24 10    |     avoid the appearance even of being the author of evil, whosoever
25 10    |          the world, although, as being good, and the enemy of evil,
26 10    |         or else was willing, but being a weak God, was not able.
27 11    |   inferior to another co-eternal Being. So that we now affirm that
28 11    |         also He alone is good as being eternal, and therefore good
29 11    |   eternal, and therefore good as being God, how can evil be inherent
30 11    |     compatible with l an eternal Being, even by being made compatible
31 11    |        an eternal Being, even by being made compatible with Matter,
32 11    |   invincible and insuperable, as being eternal; and in that case
33 11    |          His Son His enemies, as being the workers of evil, if
34 12    |     determined to be eternal, as being unmade, unborn, and therefore
35 12    |   admissible in Matter; and this being the case, it has lost its
36 14    |        unwillingly, no doubt, as being good; of necessity, too,
37 14    |      good; of necessity, too, as being unwilling; and as an act
38 15    |    claimed for it, as an eternal being. Thus, in regard to the
39 15    |       too much appearance of its being derived, and be alleged
40 15    |      their non-existence, or not being strong enough to effect
41 15    |        things should be good, if being desirous of that result,
42 15    |           in order to secure His being alone acknowledged as good
43 15    |      same time to prevent Matter being regarded as evil from (created)
44 15    |        Lord from the reproach of being thought the author of evil,
45 16    |      author of evil; but God, as being good, cannot be the author
46 16    |          and both will be equal, being on equal terms allied to
47 16    |         them along with it. This being the case, I cannot tell
48 16    |       the actual Creator, Matter being simply associated with Him
49 16    |       the author of evil. Matter being therefore excluded, since
50 17    |        treatment of its order as being "the way of wisdom and knowledge."
51 18    |          that there is any other being than God alone who is unbegotten
52 18    |          if that, which from its being inherent in the Lord was
53 18    |      capacity of Wisdom, and (as being He) without whom nothing
54 18    |          author to bring it into being. On this principle, then,
55 19    |      principium means beginning, being a term which is suitable
56 19    |      nothing which has come into being is without a beginning,
57 20    |       initial one, we have that (Being) even acknowledging such
58 20    |       meditation and arrangement being the primal operation of
59 21    |         the very fact of its not being indicated that it was made
60 21    |        there is no danger of its being supposed that it was made
61 24    |       more capable will it be of being applied to any other object
62 25    |         the beginning; the other being the Matter of which God
63 25    |         from the offspring. This being the case, another question
64 27    |        on that account worthy of being supposed to be Matter. Well
65 27    |          of everything which has being, from whatever source it
66 27    |          discussion is, whether "being without form, and void,"
67 28    |          visible even to a human being (for the very fact that
68 28    |        and disordered, which, as being invisible, was not palpable
69 28    |          it had the condition of being imperfect, previous to its
70 29    |        first He bestowed upon it being, and then He filled it,
71 29    |          it was without form (as being not yet perfect to the sight,
72 30    |          how is it introduced as being "without form?" If it had
73 31    |    example may be an idle one as being derived from a human circumstance;
74 32    |  creation, when things came into being, which had not been (previously)
75 34    |       FROM HERMOGENES' CHARGE OF BEING MERELY FIGURATIVE.~Besides,
76 37    |          to our notice Matter as being neither corporeal nor incorporeal,
77 37    |         God as the more powerful Being, as able to convert the
78 38    |         is bounded by space; and being thus determinable by space,
79 39    |        God, on the ground of its being convertible, mutable, and
80 40    |       quit-ted its condition, by being separated from it in the
81 42    |      want to be set in order for being, forsooth, a part of the
82 42    |      even God was susceptible of being set in order by Matter,
83 43    |    RESPECTING THE EVIL IN MATTER BEING CHANGED TO GOOD.~On the
84 43    |          nature was incapable of being changed by God; and then,
85 45conc|   nothing? They are incapable of being found out or investigated,