Chapter

 1 5 |     answer will he give? Will he say that Matter is not then
 2 5 |          of God. Well, then, you say, we ourselves at that rate
 3 6 |        and without end. God will say, "I am the first!" Yet how
 4 7 |          seeing that it dares to say, I also am the first; I
 5 9 |         OF HERMOGENES.~He cannot say that it was as its Lord
 6 9 |           since He is I will not say the Author of evil, because
 7 10|  whosoever he is that I will not say, indeed, has made, but still
 8 12|          God. Here some man will say, Then will "children not
 9 13|        pervading it), that is to say, one which is evil throughout;
10 16|          to the Other that is to say, let the good be God's,
11 18|      first-begotten Word? Not to say that what is unbegotten
12 19| signification of every word, and say that principium means beginning,
13 20|          in principio that is to say, in the beginning He made
14 20|        to, it was quite right to say, in the beginning. For it
15 21|       SUPERFLUOUS.~But, you will say to me, if you determine
16 23|      singly; but first I wish to say to him, by way of general
17 23|          so pleased. It might, I say, have existed, and yet God
18 23|        without a cause, you will say. Oh, no! certainly not without
19 27|      characteristic disdain, and say: There is the was, looking
20 29|          this purport does David say: "The earth is the Lord'
21 31|    portion. Suppose now I should say the city built a theatre
22 31|        the nostrils, it does not say that they were made by God;
23 34|          was eternal, that is to say, out of Matter; neither
24 36|    things; but yet we should not say that either a man or a stone
25 36|       body and motion: we should say rather that all things have
26 37|   neither good nor evil; and you say, whilst arguing further
27 37|         that it is evil when you say, "If it were good, it would
28 38|       make it infinite, when you say: "It is on this account
29 38|   un-circumscribed. "Wherefore," say you, "it is not fabricated
30 39|     comprehension, since (as you say)it is used as material by
31 39|  separable. For its changes, you say, show it to be inseparable.
32 39|         In like manner, when you say, "All things simultaneously
33 40|        USED IN THE CREATION.~You say that Matter was reformed
34 40|        order; and would you also say, that out of order, disorder
35 40|        another thing; that is to say, it is not its co-equal.
36 40|          such a way that you can say the whole is known by its
37 41|       neither good nor evil, you say: "Matter, which is the substratum (
38 42|     regularity, and you go on to say that Matter aims at a shapeless
39 42|       Matter; and then again you say that it has a common condition ·
40 42|           it is impossible," you say, "if it has nothing in common
41 43|         the boiling caldron, you say that motion in Matter, before
42 43|          Then again you go on to say, "But it waited for the
43 43|          In a former passage you say, "If Matter were naturally