Chapter

 1 2     |   position. For if He were in existence, He could not be made, for
 2 2     |    not be made, for He was in existence already; if, however, he
 3 2     |       however, he were not in existence He could not make, because
 4 2     |    exists, does not came into existence, but exists for ever and
 5 3     |  author. The fact of its past existence it owed to no one, so that
 6 10    |       He had been against its existence, He must Himself have then
 7 12    |    For things which owe their existence to birth such as stones
 8 15    |       whence good derived its existence, Hermogenes will now have
 9 15    |   evil, which now excuses the existence of evil things, when He
10 18    |    require a Maker to give it existence, will be much more elevated
11 19    |   than when it begins to have existence. Thus principium or beginning,
12 23    |   that, because Matter was in existence before all, anything of
13 23    |   kind. Matter might have had existence, if it so pleased or rather
14 23    |   anything out of Matter. Its existence must therefore be without
15 26    | quality before mentioning its existence, pointing out the figure
16 27    |      it pointed to an eternal existence, making its subject, of
17 34    |  purpose of its e coming into existence.~
18 35    |     the manifest proof of its existence), we must for all that pursue
19 45conc|      that Matter had no prior existence (even from this circumstance,
20 45conc|    for it to have had such an existence as is assigned to it), in