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  1 1     |           have it that He made all things of nothing. For, turning
  2 1     |        Lord afterwards created all things.~
  3 2     |     CONCLUDES THAT GOD CREATED ALL THINGS OUT OF PRE-EXISTING MATTER.~
  4 2     |             that the Lord made all things either out of Himself, or
  5 2     |            could not have made all things, he says, of Himself; because
  6 2     |          Himself; because whatever things the Lord made of Himself
  7 2     |            could not have made all things out of nothing thus: He
  8 2     |        good, who must will to make things as good and excellent as
  9 2     |         good itself. Therefore all things ought to have been made
 10 2     |    Experience shows, however, that things which are even evil were
 11 3     |         from the moment when those things began to exist, over which
 12 3     |         not Lord previous to those things of which He was to be the
 13 3     |      become Lord by means of those things which He had made, in order
 14 3     |         one after the other, those things of which He was to be the
 15 3     |         was always God, but to all things was He only then God, when
 16 3     |          over it, by creating (all things) out of Matter, although
 17 4     |            Father, of whom are all things;" whence the greater reason
 18 4     |          is not which is above all things, before all things, and
 19 4     |       above all things, before all things, and from which all things
 20 4     |         things, and from which all things proceed? By possessing these
 21 5     |      regarded as the author of all things, when the universe is composed
 22 5     |            well as the Lord of all things. Truth, however, maintains
 23 6     |       First, and the Author of all things, and the Lord of all things,
 24 6     |        things, and the Lord of all things, and being incomparable
 25 6     |          it was the Author (of all things), and with God their Sovereign.
 26 6     |       Alone, and the Author of all things are also compatible to Matter,
 27 7     |         than all. For, just as all things which are born, or which
 28 7     |         first; I too am before all things; and I am that from which
 29 7     |           I am that from which all things proceed; equal we have been,
 30 8     |          have it that God made all things out of Matter. For if He
 31 8     |           for this, to produce all things out of nothing. To be sure,
 32 9     |             Did He, then, make all things out of Matter, by permission,
 33 10    |           Hermogenes), to make all things out of nothing,that so evil
 34 10    |            of nothing,that so evil things themselves might be attributed
 35 11    |          also an end. For whatever things are set to the account of
 36 12    |          is a thoughtless one. For things which owe their existence
 37 12    |          it be nay, very evil good things have been created, nay, "
 38 13    |        longer will absolutely good things be imputable to God, just
 39 13    |     imputable to God, just as evil things are not ascribed to Him,
 40 13    |         neither gratitude for good things, nor grudge for evil ones,
 41 14    |      thought, that He created evil things of necessity, or of His
 42 14    |      making God the Author of evil things; because, since He made
 43 14    |         because, since He made all things of Matter, they will have
 44 14    |       question, whence He made all things, identifies itself with (
 45 14    |     question), whether He made all things out of nothing; and it matters
 46 14    |     matters not whence He made all things, so that He made all things
 47 14    |        things, so that He made all things thence, whence most glory
 48 15    |           TRUTH, THAT GOD MADE ALL THINGS FROM NOTHING, RESCUED FROM
 49 15    |            of nothing, why not all things? Unless indeed it be that
 50 15    |          for the production of all things, though it produced a something
 51 15    |           duty to produce all good things out of Matter, or rather
 52 15    |          of Matter, or rather good things simply, by His identical
 53 15    |          only not produce all good things, but even (some) evil things
 54 15    |       things, but even (some) evil things of course, either willing
 55 15    |          enough to effect that all things should be good, if being
 56 15    |          that, after creating good things, as if Himself good, He
 57 15    |            have also produced evil things, as if He failed in His
 58 15    |       Himself to the production of things which were simply consistent
 59 15    |      persons who contend that evil things were necessary to impart
 60 15    |      excuses the existence of evil things, when He produces them out
 61 16    |      moreover, by making both good things and evil things out of Matter,
 62 16    |          both good things and evil things out of Matter, creates them
 63 16    |          doubt, must have made all things out of nothing. Whether
 64 16    |           of nothing. Whether evil things were amongst them we shall
 65 16    |           made clear what are evil things, and whether those things
 66 16    |          things, and whether those things are evil which you at present
 67 17    |         will be first, because all things are after Him; and all things
 68 17    |      things are after Him; and all things are after Him, because all
 69 17    |         are after Him, because all things are by Him; and all things
 70 17    |         things are by Him; and all things are by Him, because they
 71 17    |           must have made even evil things suitably to the nature not
 72 18    |         GOD, BY WHICH GOD MADE ALL THINGS OF NOTHING.~If any material
 73 18    |         Lord. For "who knoweth the things of God, and the things in
 74 18    |         the things of God, and the things in God, but the Spirit,
 75 18    |     knowledge. Of this He made all things, making them through It,
 76 18    |          present, compacting these things along with Him. I was He
 77 18    |         fountain and origin of all things of this as, in very deed,
 78 19    |           is suitable to represent things which begin to exist. For
 79 19    |           His creation, before all things else, with good reason does
 80 20    |          His works." For since all things were made by the Wisdom
 81 20    |            Wisdom that He made all things at first, because by meditating
 82 20    |          there are three principal things, He who makes, and that
 83 20    |          out of which God made all things, inasmuch as it is therein
 84 20    |       revealed by whom He made all things. "In the beginning was the
 85 20    |          and the Word was God. All things were made by Him, and without
 86 20    |         and what He made, even all things, and through whom He made
 87 20    |            source out of which all things were made by God through
 88 21    |          if you determine that all things were made of nothing, on
 89 21    |        that on the same ground all things were made out of Matter,
 90 21    |        expressly declared that all things were made out of nothing
 91 21    |     indicating the creation of all things out of nothing, as there
 92 21    |            been unable to make all things of nothing, the Scripture
 93 21    |         added that He had made all things of nothing: (there could
 94 21    |            us that He had made all things out of Matter, since Matter
 95 22    |          God, when producing other things out of things which had
 96 22    |      producing other things out of things which had been already made,
 97 22    |       already been created certain things, from which they might easily
 98 22    |          out of which He drew such things as were derived from a given
 99 22    |          also with regard to those things of which He does not point
100 22    |          His Word. But whether all things were made out of any underlying
101 29    |         kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth,
102 31    |          state that these specific things were made by the city, they
103 31    |      formation of these particular things because they were implied
104 31    |           they were implied in the things which I had already said
105 31    |   understood to be inherent in the things in which they were contained?
106 32    |       refreshing and animating all things: not (as some suppose) meaning
107 32    |         made the fountains strong, things which are under the sky,
108 32    |        prove that these particular things were created by God, although
109 32    |            it although as separate things unless, indeed, they were
110 32    |     impossible that those specific things, which are set forth under
111 32    |          to be useless, if it made things which existed already; since
112 32    |          would be a creation, when things came into being, which had
113 33    |        that it is certain that all things were made by God, and that
114 34    |             A PRESUMPTION THAT ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY GOD OUT
115 34    |          ULTIMATE REDUCTION OF ALL THINGS TO NOTHING. SCRIPTURES PROVING
116 34    |          which will bring back all things to nothing. For "the very
117 34    |      necessarily arise out of real things, not out of chimerical ones;
118 34    |   principle which defines that all things which have come from nothing
119 34    |             neither out of greater things would He have created inferior
120 34    |       agreeable to produce greater things out of inferior ones, in
121 35    | incorporeality in even substantial things, although their very substance
122 35    |          is the body of particular things); at all events, after the
123 36    |    incorporeal part of matter. All things, indeed, have motion either
124 36    |          or of others as inanimate things; but yet we should not say
125 36    |         should say rather that all things have one form of simple
126 36    |       reckon these parts as of the things. How then does he contrive
127 39    |         manner, when you say, "All things simultaneously throughout
128 39    |       possession (of Matter)by all things throughout the universe
129 39    |            very beginning when the things which are now visible to
130 41    |            them local, since those things which have local space must
131 41    |    substance. In fact, incorporeal things could not have any locality
132 41    |         you make substances of the things to which you assign locality;
133 44    |        apparent; whose praises all things chant, even inanimate things
134 44    |       things chant, even inanimate things and things incorporeal,
135 44    |          even inanimate things and things incorporeal, according to (
136 45conc|        produced, "through whom all things were made, and without whom
137 45conc|            see, therefore, how all things consist by the operation
138 45conc|       Spirit, His might. Now these things were not necessary to Him,
139 45conc|            however, His "invisible things," which, according to the
140 45conc|          world clearly seen by the things that are made; they are
141 45conc|            indicate, than that all things were made out of nothing?
142 45conc|          far is it proved that all things were made by God out of