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1 39 | seeing that He is eternal and abiding for ever, and therefore
2 16 | that He should have lacked ability to hinder its creation.~
3 31 | the kind is said of the above-mentioned specific parts; and therefore
4 3 | shall at once hasten to pull abroad. I have been willing to
5 21 | so long as there is an absence of statement of what it
6 5 | matters it so long as their absolute state have but one mode?
7 21 | out of nothing just as it abstains (from saying that they were
8 10 | WHAT STRAITS HERMOGENES ABSURDLY REDUCES THE DIVINE BEING.
9 8 | was in want of it rich and abundant and liberal as it was to
10 29 | withdrawn into their hollow abysses that the dry land became
11 1 | from the Church to the Academy and the Porch, he learned
12 12 | PREMISSES OF HERMOGENES ACCEPTED, IN ORDER TO SHOW INTO WHAT
13 41 | in a body, when they have access to a body. But when Matter
14 45conc| conspicuously and to be everywhere accessible from the time when the world
15 3 | was to act, God, by the accession of that power, both became
16 7 | is unsusceptible of these accidents, because He is absolutely
17 29 | Thus the divine Scripture accomplished its full order. For to that,
18 36 | any incorporeal incidents accrue to them, as actions, or
19 3 | indication indeed of something accruing. For from the moment when
20 1 | TENETS MENTIONED.~WE are accustomed, for the purpose of shortening
21 20 | we have that (Being) even acknowledging such a beginning, who says: "
22 24 | made of Matter, if this has acquired the further sense of Earth,
23 10 | unwilling to create, He acted in fact against His very
24 36 | substance and a body? Just as action is, and impulsion, just
25 36 | incidents accrue to them, as actions, or passions, or functions,
26 16 | author of evil, who was the actual Creator, Matter being simply
27 3 | And the Lord God commanded Adam." Thenceforth He, who was
28 22 | THE WOE PRONOUNCED AGAINST ADDING TO SCRIPTURE.~And to such
29 3 | HERMOGENES POINTED OUT.~He adds also another point: that
30 11 | prejudice; so that it is without adequate reason that he has been
31 38 | ABOUT MATTER AND SOME OF ITS ADJUNCTS, SHOWN TO BE ABSURD. FOR
32 37 | deny having made such an admission.~
33 12 | always is. Well, then, I will adopt this definite opinion of
34 1 | his pen. He is a thorough adulterer, both doctrinally and carnally,
35 37 | wish, never feel able to advance, so as to change its good
36 35 | CONTRADICTORY PROPOSITIONS ADVANCED BY HERMOGENES RESPECTING
37 36 | a contradiction he next advances (or perhaps some other reason
38 21 | seeming to have been made of afar different material from
39 42 | wants to be put into shape, affect to be without form? You
40 27 | part, I shall resort to no affected protestation, but simply
41 41 | another sort of motion is affirmed by you? For when you want
42 5 | OWN ARGUMENT, AS IF RATHER AFRAID OF IT. AFTER INVESTING MATTER
43 28 | ours, but that it did not agree with that other (insisted
44 34 | character it would be more agreeable to produce greater things
45 28 | only that this condition agreed with this earth of ours,
46 42 | go on to say that Matter aims at a shapeless condition,
47 6 | possesses different and alien from God, and hereby special
48 42 | moving itself in a way not allowed to God.~
49 44 | God kept Himself so far aloof from Matter as to have neither
50 14 | nothing. For this is the alternative, on Hermogenes' own showing.~
51 37 | treated to some extent of this ambiguity of good and evil touching
52 9 | Matter, which He would have amended if He had been its Lord.
53 32 | darkness." Of the wind also Amos says, "He that strengtheneth
54 5 | accorded to Matter the full amount of the Deity? He says in
55 1 | such as were, by the more ancient rule of truth, predicted
56 11 | prepared for him and his angels" having been first "cast
57 32 | balancing and refreshing and animating all things: not (as some
58 21 | XXI. A RETORT OF HERESY ANSWERED. THAT SCRIPTURE SHOULD IN
59 40 | unformed and shapeless Matter answers to Matter which is now arranged
60 36 | the declaration of that antithesis, which is plainly above
61 11 | reason that he has been so anxious to remove evil from God;
62 | anywhere
63 30 | words will in like manner apparently corroborate the conjecture
64 25 | which was made derived the appellation from that of which it was
65 3 | FATHER ARE ONLY RELATIVE APPELLATIONS, NOT ETERNALLY APPLICABLE.
66 45conc| merely, nor approaching, but applying the almighty efforts of
67 11 | nay more, in vain has God appointed any judgment at all, when
68 12 | and human beings are not apposite to the case of Matter, which
69 18 | Now, who would not rather approve of this as the fountain
70 10 | heretics which leaves them to argue in such a way that they
71 14 | DILEMMA.~Now, if it be also argued, that although Matter may
72 37 | evil; and you say, whilst arguing further on it in the same
73 19 | for beginning, which is arkê, admits the sense not only
74 19 | and magistrates are called arkontes. Therefore in this sense
75 20 | because by meditating and arranging His plans therein, He had
76 39 | that so the whole may be ascertained from its parts," you of
77 6 | qualities which he straightway ascribes to Matter also. He is God,
78 10 | even not good. Was He then, asks (Hermogenes), to make all
79 40 | looking-glass look like an ass instead of a man; unless
80 41 | local habitation, when you assert that motion in Matter inclined
81 22 | confirms (by that silence our assertion) that they were produced
82 6 | made the expanse. When he asserts the position that Matter
83 45conc| such an existence as is assigned to it), in so far is it
84 29 | darkness with the moon's assuaging ray. The heaven He did not
85 25 | XXV. THE ASSUMPTION THAT THERE ARE TWO EARTHS
86 2 | INDUCTION FROM MERE HERETICAL ASSUMPTIONS, CONCLUDES THAT GOD CREATED
87 29 | And so, when it afterwards attains its perfection, it ceases
88 6 | be sure. God shall also attest the same; but He has also
89 44 | wounding a soul, or a magnet attracting iron? For even if God appeared
90 5 | without end; both are the authors of the universe both He
91 37 | passages also, so as to have avoided any contradiction of them.
92 29 | after it was made, and while awaiting its perfect state, it was "
93 34 | believe o that He has actually awakened the universe out of nothing,
94 41 | is, in a just and exact balance. Now this is not unrest;
95 32 | wafted over the waters, balancing and refreshing and animating
96 45conc| right hand, indeed His two bands, by which He worked and
97 40 | ever found himself in a barber's looking-glass look like
98 40 | which is now arranged and beautified in the fabric of the world.
99 29 | OF CHAOS IN THE CREATION, BEAUTIFULLY STATED.~God, indeed, consummated
100 27 | toss back your head, and beckon with your finger, in characteristic
101 | becomes
102 | becoming
103 29 | heaven He did not all at once bedeck with constellations and
104 2 | not a whole; because it behaved Him to be a whole, that
105 5 | soon as it has something belonging to God; since, by not having
106 11 | the Father shall have put beneath the feet of His Son His
107 41 | since it had no natural bent either way, oscillated from
108 25 | earths the name earth is best suited, I shall be told
109 10 | world in such a way as to betray His own obligation to a
110 40 | Matter was reformed for the betters from a worse condition,
111 26 | had just been made, and binds the sense thereunto. Take
112 12 | which owe their existence to birth such as stones and vipers
113 13 | darkness, for sweet and bitter? So again, if qualities
114 12 | means thereof refute him. I blame Matter with a like censure,
115 32 | from me, and I made every blast." In like manner the same
116 12 | they were good, and God blessed them" because, of course,
117 10 | conscience, must be the blindness of our heretics which leaves
118 31 | and eyes, and sweat and blood, in subsequent passages,
119 15 | much better if evil had not blown upon it. For Hermogenes
120 41 | space must needs first have bodily substance. In fact, incorporeal
121 41 | to it the comparison of a boiler of hot water surging over.
122 31 | again it speaks of skin and bones, and flesh and eyes, and
123 11 | been first "cast into the bottomless pit;" when likewise "the
124 38 | vocation) you know is the boundary to every object susceptible
125 37 | opinion, that it was your bounden duty to have said for certain
126 31 | so also did the heaven brood over the spirit and the
127 31 | heaven. And even as the earth brooded over the deep and the darkness,
128 31 | now I should say the city built a theatre and a circus,
129 15 | God to many most unworthy calumnies.~
130 31 | the statues were on the canal, and the obelisk was reared
131 18 | the Word of God, in the capacity of Wisdom, and (as being
132 21 | pre-existent Matter, take care that it be not contended
133 1 | adulterer, both doctrinally and carnally, since he is rank indeed
134 26 | But the earth." This word carries back the mind to that earth
135 11 | angels" having been first "cast into the bottomless pit;"
136 34 | heaven, even as a fig-tree casteth her green figs when she
137 31 | circumstance, too, will be caught at, that Scripture meant
138 10 | He must Himself have then caused it to exist, when He refused
139 1 | twofold process with his cautery and his pen. He is a thorough
140 32 | SPECIFIC CREATIONS. FURTHER CAVILLINGS CONFUTED.~This is the answer
141 29 | enjoy it, ever since it ceased to be "without form (invisible),
142 29 | attains its perfection, it ceases to be accounted void, when
143 12 | blame Matter with a like censure, because out of it, evil
144 44 | whose praises all things chant, even inanimate things and
145 29 | OF COSMICAL ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE CREATION, BEAUTIFULLY
146 27 | beckon with your finger, in characteristic disdain, and say: There
147 11 | an end of evil, when the chief thereof, the devil, shall "
148 34 | real things, not out of chimerical ones; t because nothing
149 37 | the statement which you chose to make before. Indeed,
150 1 | HERETICAL. NOT DERIVED FROM CHRISTIANITY, BUT FROM HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY.
151 1 | For, turning away from Christians to the philosophers, from
152 1 | the philosophers, from the Church to the Academy and the Porch,
153 39 | correcter thing, let Matter be circumscribed by means of changes and
154 26 | into the narrative like a clasp, (in its function) of a
155 45conc| finding out! " Now what clearer truth do these words indicate,
156 1 | and has also failed in cleaving to the rule of faith as
157 37 | thought you were going to clinch your proposition, I here
158 18 | above the winds the lofty clouds, and when He secured the
159 6 | co-eternal with Him? Between co-eternals and contemporaries there
160 44 | approached it, He yet did not cohere to it, as the magnet does
161 17 | nothing: so that reason coincides with the Scripture, which
162 33 | finds it amongst his own colourable pretences (for it was not
163 2 | Our very bad painter has coloured this his primary shade absolutely
164 30 | which comes) from many parts combined. Now Matter either had those
165 3 | formed;" "And the Lord God commanded Adam." Thenceforth He, who
166 19 | beginning, nor can this its commencement be at any other moment than
167 27 | the simple meaning of the commonest words. A grand question
168 18 | the heaven, I was present, compacting these things along with
169 4 | according to Hermogenes,) God compares it with Himself as equally
170 11 | account of evil, have a compatibility with the condition of evil.~
171 15 | excuse, then the question is completely shut up in a corner, where
172 30 | blended together from various component parts, must necessarily
173 5 | things, when the universe is composed of it. What answer will
174 25 | likewise, although electrum is compounded of gold and silver, I shall
175 39 | let it also be capable of comprehension, since (as you say)it is
176 26 | of the thing formed, but concealing its name! But how much more
177 36 | MOTION IN MATTER. HERMOGENES' CONCEITS RESPECTING IT.~But see what
178 22 | upon Himself so great a concern for our instruction, that
179 32 | therefore it employed this concise mode of speech. But, at
180 32 | previously) made. Therefore, to conclude, either Moses then pointed
181 43 | in vain." You therefore concluded your two opinions, that
182 9 | INEVITABLE BUT INTOLERABLE CONCLUSIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF HERMOGENES.~
183 8 | service, verily, did it confer on God in giving Him means
184 6 | which he had not equally conferred on Matter, so that it is
185 18 | begotten." Let Hermogenes then confess that the very Wisdom of
186 29 | but the Earth is here, confessed to my view. I see it, I
187 25 | that Silenus who talked so confidently in the presence of king
188 15 | goodness, since He did not confine Himself to the production
189 4 | this quality, that it be confined to One. Else, what will
190 22 | XXII. THIS CONCLUSION CONFIRMED BY THE USAGE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
191 22 | whence He produced them, He confirms (by that silence our assertion)
192 17 | For He had to operate conformably with the quality of the
193 32 | CREATIONS. FURTHER CAVILLINGS CONFUTED.~This is the answer I should
194 5 | and, "God standeth in the congregation of the gods." But this comes
195 30 | apparently corroborate the conjecture of Hermogenes, "And darkness
196 19 | endeavour to prop up their conjectures, with the view, of course,
197 5 | to allow that there is a conjoint possession of an attribute
198 26 | in its function) of a conjunctive particle, to connect the
199 26 | conjunctive particle, to connect the two sentences indissolubly
200 20 | THE BEGINNING. TERTULLIAN CONNECTS IT WITH THE WISDOM OF GOD,
201 10 | of, yet at any rate the conniver at, evil, inasmuch as He,
202 15 | things which were simply consistent with Himself? What necessity
203 11 | HOW HE FAILS TO DO THIS CONSISTENTLY WITH HIS OWN ARGUMENT.~But,
204 29 | that the dry land became conspicuous, which was hitherto covered
205 45conc| God began to appear more conspicuously and to be everywhere accessible
206 29 | all at once bedeck with constellations and stars, nor did He at
207 3 | the former of which was to constitute the Lord a Judge, and the
208 19 | His making them first, He constituted them in an especial manner
209 7 | opinions; for they, when constrained to acknowledge God, insist
210 45conc| by which He worked and constructed the universe. " For," says
211 19 | and the earth, they will construe as if it meant something
212 29 | BEAUTIFULLY STATED.~God, indeed, consummated all His works in a due order;
213 1 | is rank indeed with the contagion of your marriage-hacks,
214 31 | mentioning only that which contains, as pertaining to the whole,
215 7 | He who subjects me to a contemporaneous, co-eternal power? If it
216 6 | Between co-eternals and contemporaries there is no sequence of
217 5 | indeed we do, and shall continue to do only it is from Him
218 3 | earth;" and as long as He continued making, one after the other,
219 38 | infinite, not in time. And you contradict yourself when you make Matter
220 45conc| XLV. CONCLUSION. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE STATEMENTS OF
221 15 | be understood from their contrasts. This, therefore, was not
222 36 | things. How then does he contrive to assign an integral portion
223 37 | possibly be brought under control by Him, and trained to something
224 10 | friend thereof, since He held converse with evil in Matter nay,
225 15 | have proceeded from the conversion of Matter contrary to that
226 37 | powerful Being, as able to convert the nature of stones into
227 9 | evil, He would first have converted it into good as its Lord
228 39 | the ground of its being convertible, mutable, and separable.
229 40 | would make the better a copy of the worse. Everything
230 5 | V. HERMOGENES COQUETS WITH HIS OWN ARGUMENT, AS
231 29 | seed after its kind, and cording to its likeness, and the
232 15 | completely shut up in a corner, where they are unwilling
233 36 | have one form of simple corporeality, which is the essential
234 10 | of evil, He ought to have corrected it. For He either was able
235 39 | it seems to you to be the correcter thing, let Matter be circumscribed
236 5 | total (divinity), it cannot correspond to the whole extent of the
237 30 | in like manner apparently corroborate the conjecture of Hermogenes, "
238 32 | IN GENESIS A GENERAL ONE. CORROBORATED, HOWEVER, BY MANY OTHER
239 29 | THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COSMICAL ORDER OUT OF CHAOS IN THE
240 40 | ORIGIN FOR GOD'S BEAUTIFUL COSMOS. HERMOGENES DOES NOT MEND
241 17 | counsellor? or with whom took He counsel? or who hath shown to Him
242 7 | will Hermogenes have the courage to draw distinctions; and
243 21 | Some arguments may, of coursed be thus retorted easily
244 45conc| Do not be willing so to cover God with flattery, as to
245 32 | there would be stupid and crafty men, who, after paltering
246 32 | strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind, and declareth
247 32 | GIVE ACCOUNT OF SPECIFIC CREATIONS. FURTHER CAVILLINGS CONFUTED.~
248 25 | Scripture, except it be that credence must be given to that Silenus
249 26 | name! But how much more credible is our opinion, which holds
250 10 | be the promoter thereof; criminally, if through His own will
251 19 | BEGINNING, WHICH THE HERETIC CURIOUSLY WRESTS TO AN ABSURD SENSE.~
252 18 | took delight; moreover, I daily rejoiced in His presence:
253 44 | according to (the prophet) Daniel? How immense the place,
254 7 | the Author? seeing that it dares to say, I also am the first;
255 1 | of the lateness of their date. For in as far as by our
256 12 | in short, its beauty is decayed in death. Eternity, however,
257 36 | incorporeal in spite of the declaration of that antithesis, which
258 32 | and createth the wind, and declareth His Christ unto men;" thus
259 25 | in its name, after it had declined from its condition. If earth
260 18 | things of this as, in very deed, the Matter of all Matter,
261 16 | evil which you at present deem to be so. For it is more
262 11 | since what is eternal can be deemed evil, the evil must prove
263 12 | then, I will adopt this definite opinion of his, and by means
264 7 | Divinity, however, has no degrees, because it is unique; and
265 6 | HERMOGENES IS REDUCED, WHO DEIFIES MATTER, AND YET IS UNWILLING
266 7 | insist on having other deities below Him. The Divinity,
267 18 | I was He in whom He took delight; moreover, I daily rejoiced
268 11 | children of God" shall have "delivered the creature" from evil,
269 25 | propriety which is alike demanded by the designation and the
270 30 | their separate position, He demonstrated also their distinction.
271 30 | in the substances; and by demonstrating their separate position,
272 40 | among the Greeks by a term denoting ornament, how can it present
273 15 | nothing for the purpose of denying it to be the work of God,
274 17 | IN CREATION. YOU CANNOT DEPART IN THE LEAST FROM IT, WITHOUT
275 25 | electrum. When there is a departure from the nature of any thing,
276 34 | it has been His will to deposit within us this pledge of
277 34 | he will yet be unable to deprive them of the true accomplishment
278 10 | in order that they may derive evil from Matter, not from
279 27 | the verb, when it has to descend to relation. "Est" (it is)
280 35 | is it called? what is its description? what is it understood to
281 32 | the several members a word descriptive of their formation too.
282 5 | even gods, if we, shall deserve to be among those of whom
283 28 | contrary, which was made, was deservedly called "void." For as soon
284 17 | Matter) itself both the design and the treatment of its
285 3 | special propriety, He then is designated a Lord. Then also the Scripture
286 30 | passage), which severally designates" darkness," "the deep" "
287 24 | he may claim for it both designations alike.~
288 37 | that which is good never desire, never wish, never feel
289 15 | should be good, if being desirous of that result, He failed
290 3 | especially man himself, who was destined to understand His sovereignty
291 26 | statement, then follow the details in full; first the subject
292 14 | good creatures, as having detected what was good in matter
293 38 | by space; and being thus determinable by space, it is susceptible
294 21 | you will say to me, if you determine that all things were made
295 3 | Lord: "And the Lord God, Deus Dominus. took the man, whom
296 29 | XXIX. THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COSMICAL ORDER OUT OF
297 10 | effected no result by this device of his. For observe how
298 11 | when the chief thereof, the devil, shall "go away into the
299 2 | Himself. But this is a most difficult position. For if He were
300 14 | PUSHES HIS OPPONENT INTO A DILEMMA.~Now, if it be also argued,
301 23 | word was he gives the same direction, as if it pointed to what
302 38 | existent." And if any of your disciples should choose to meet us
303 35 | that there is a third state discovered by this right reason of
304 14 | although this, too, be a discreditable supposition yet, at any
305 30 | pile of Matter. Now, so discriminating an enumeration of certain
306 27 | finger, in characteristic disdain, and say: There is the was,
307 10 | if through His own will disgracefully, if through necessity. God
308 37 | But although you are here disinclined to allow that Matter is
309 40 | say, that out of order, disorder is produced? No one thing
310 34 | upon us by that ultimate dispensation of God which will bring
311 39 | by means of changes and displacements; let it also be capable
312 45conc| precipate and fervid impulse has displayed a specimen of his own art,
313 2 | of Himself; but He is not dissoluble into parts,, because, being
314 41 | in Matter poised equally distant from both sides.~
315 7 | have the courage to draw distinctions; and thus to subject matter
316 15 | reason itself of evil, or distinguishing how they should either attribute
317 21 | admissible, where there is a diversity in the cause. For I maintain
318 39 | possible for Him to become divided seeing that He is eternal
319 39 | will be unsusceptible of division, of change, for the same
320 1 | thorough adulterer, both doctrinally and carnally, since he is
321 19 | shall appeal to the original document of Moses, by help of which
322 9 | permitter thereof, as having dominion over it. If indeed Matter
323 3 | And the Lord God, Deus Dominus. took the man, whom He had
324 | done
325 7 | Hermogenes have the courage to draw distinctions; and thus to
326 8 | helper; only there is this drawback, that Hermogenes is the
327 23 | INTERPRETATION EXPOSED.~But he draws an argument from the following
328 29 | consummated all His works in a due order; at first He paled
329 29 | the world, and all that dwell therein: He hath rounded
330 34 | non-existence for the purpose of its e coming into existence.~
331 8 | furnished Him with the means of effecting His works; and God is thereby
332 18 | existence, will be much more elevated in rank than that which
333 20 | WITH THE WISDOM OF GOD, AND ELICITS FROM IT THE TRUTH THAT THE
334 1 | who mistakes loquacity for eloquence, and supposes impudence
335 19 | something substantial and embodied, to be regarded as Matter.
336 18 | says God, "my heart hath emitted my most excellent Word"),
337 19 | of the plant. But when we employ the word beginning in this
338 13 | instead thereof (we now encounter) a double nature, partly
339 19 | on the other side vainly endeavour to prop up their conjectures,
340 29 | earth itself He did not endow with its varied fruitfulness
341 11 | the feet of His Son His enemies, as being the workers of
342 10 | as being good, and the enemy of evil, He ought to have
343 29 | to my view. I see it, I enjoy it, ever since it ceased
344 9 | will of another, which he enjoyed a precarious holding, and
345 38 | why God should not have entirely formed it, unless it be
346 38 | understand what kind of thing the entirety was. It was only right that
347 30 | Now, so discriminating an enumeration of certain and distinct
348 29 | covered with its watery envelope. Then it forthwith becomes "
349 38 | He was either impotent or envious. I want therefore to know
350 5 | in their names prevented equality, when an identity of condition
351 27 | essential part of a definition, "erat" (it was) of a relation.
352 41 | not incline to them. You err, therefore, when you will
353 3 | the whole creation, and especially man himself, who was destined
354 41 | was as corporeal or local essences that it did not incline
355 27 | to descend to relation. "Est" (it is) forms the essential
356 4 | without an end. For what other estimate's of God is there than eternity?
357 39 | indivisible. Since Matter too is estimated by the same eternity, having
358 18 | XVIII. AN EULOGY ON THE WISDOM AND WORD OF
359 41 | rather the regularity, and evenness, and exactitude of a motion,
360 35 | particular things); at all events, after the corporeal and
361 25 | is understood. This, as everybody knows, is the name of one
362 45conc| but they are the sensible evidences of Himself. "For who hath
363 25 | origin and cause of all evils. Lastly, if the one is Earth
364 20 | the beginning, but rather ex principio, of the beginning;
365 41 | regularity, and evenness, and exactitude of a motion, inclining to
366 35 | be incorporeal; but when examined by the light of right reason,
367 15 | to find it, who, without examining into the reason itself of
368 43 | incomprehensible by reason of excess in the commotion. Then again
369 45conc| of which (the apostle) exclaims: "O the depth of the riches
370 5 | should be, after all, the exclusive privilege of God!~
371 15 | the very same reason would exculpate the Lord from the reproach
372 15 | Matter? And if there is this excuse, then the question is completely
373 15 | author of evil, which now excuses the existence of evil things,
374 3 | Therefore ever since God exercised His power over it, by creating (
375 10 | still, since it would not be existing if He had been against its
376 6 | out, of which He made the expanse. When he asserts the position
377 2 | after His own condition. Experience shows, however, that things
378 3 | although it had all along experienced God as its Lord, yet Matter
379 19 | substances. I might also explain this word beginning in another
380 31 | Scripture would be sufficiently explicit, if it had declared that
381 32 | to have been with equal explicitness shown to have been made
382 15 | For Hermogenes himself explodes the arguments of sundry
383 15 | it from God, do in fact expose God to many most unworthy
384 14 | not made of Matter, on the express ground indeed that Matter
385 28 | HERMOGENES EXPOSED. CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS IN THE HISTORY OF CREATION
386 10 | a good instead of rather extirpating it, He proved Himself to
387 18 | without a beginning which was extrinsic to the Lord! But if this
388 27 | But you next praise your eyebrows, and toss back your head,
389 31 | and bones, and flesh and eyes, and sweat and blood, in
390 40 | arranged and beautified in the fabric of the world. What is there
391 38 | Wherefore," say you, "it is not fabricated as a whole, but in its parts."
392 33 | swim and fly. The original fabrics out of which such creatures
393 12 | And "children of wrath" fail to become sons of peace,
394 21 | they are on that account fairly admissible, where there
395 1 | in respect of his art. He falsities by a twofold process with
396 37 | AND SUNDRY MORAL QUALITIES FANCIFULLY ATTRIBUTED TO IT.~I see
397 32 | are under the sky, I was fashioning them along with Him." Now,
398 2 | have been made from the fault of something, and that is
399 10 | Himself evil, as having favoured evil; and thus He now opens
400 22 | nowhere written, then let it fear the woe which impends on
401 29 | with the rampart of its fecundating moisture, by which is produced
402 11 | shall have put beneath the feet of His Son His enemies,
403 7 | that complete and perfect felicity of which eternity is reckoned
404 42 | will be found all through a fellowship of divinity in this freedom
405 45conc| doubtful and precipate and fervid impulse has displayed a
406 11 | peace with the beasts of the field, when also little children
407 34 | fall from heaven, even as a fig-tree casteth her green figs when
408 34 | fig-tree casteth her green figs when she is i shaken of
409 34 | CHARGE OF BEING MERELY FIGURATIVE.~Besides, the belief that
410 26 | existence, pointing out the figure of the thing formed, but
411 34 | have been written For all figures of speech necessarily arise
412 29 | stars, nor did He at once fill the seas with their teeming
413 29 | upon it being, and then He filled it, that it might not be
414 32 | previously mentioned; or else, finally, if Moses pointed to those
415 45conc| judgments, and His ways past finding out! " Now what clearer
416 33 | But although Hermogenes finds it amongst his own colourable
417 27 | head, and beckon with your finger, in characteristic disdain,
418 23 | confused, and without the finish of a maker's hand. Now these
419 11 | shall "go away into the fire which God hath prepared
420 1 | supposes impudence to be firmness, and judges it to be the
421 29 | not previously invisible? firs purpose was also, that He
422 18 | God, the only-begotten and first-begotten Word? Not to say that what
423 26 | undoubtedly the correct and fitting mode for the narrative.
424 45conc| willing so to cover God with flattery, as to contend that He produced
425 15 | RESCUED FROM THE OPPONENT'S FLOUNDERINGS.~Now, if good was neither
426 15 | created) evil? Good would have flourished much better if evil had
427 7 | equal with God, although, for-sooth, he pretends it to be inferior
428 30 | Spirit of God," "the waters," forbids the inference that anything
429 32 | But, at the same time, it foresaw that there would be stupid
430 1 | to the truth, which also foretold that there would be heresies,
431 43 | changed by God; and then, forgetting them, you afterwards drew
432 | FORMERLY
433 30 | form," should have its "formless" condition maintained by
434 27 | relation. "Est" (it is) forms the essential part of a
435 42 | set in order for being, forsooth, a part of the Deity through
436 29 | watery envelope. Then it forthwith becomes "visible," God saying, "
437 18 | rather approve of this as the fountain and origin of all things
438 22 | creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
439 42 | fellowship of divinity in this freedom and perpetuity of motion.
440 29 | not endow with its varied fruitfulness all at once; but at first
441 28 | imperfect when it is not fully made. Certainly, you admit.
442 26 | narrative like a clasp, (in its function) of a conjunctive particle,
443 36 | actions, or passions, or functions, or desires, we do not reckon
444 8 | superior, inasmuch as it furnished Him with the means of effecting
445 16 | with Him by reason of its furnishing Him with substance, you
446 31 | THE CREATION, AGAINST A FUTILE VIEW OF HERMOGENES.~But
447 3 | only to become Lord at some future time: just as He became
448 3 | said," "and God made," "and Gad saw;" but nowhere do we
449 29 | saying, "Let the water be gathered together into one mass,
450 18 | one which was not to be gauged by the writings of philosophers,
451 18 | moreover, before the hills He generated me, and prior to the depths
452 18 | immediately creates It, and generates It in Himself. "The Lord,"
453 12 | from the stones?" Will "generations of vipers not bring forth
454 13 | grant him that there is some germ of good in it, then there
455 26 | made the heaven:" it then goes on to introduce its arrangement;
456 5 | But this comes of His own grace, not from any property in
457 29 | XXIX. THE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COSMICAL
458 13 | shall owe to God neither gratitude for good things, nor grudge
459 7 | they both stand on a par in greatness, on a par in sublimity,
460 40 | world is known among the Greeks by a term denoting ornament,
461 34 | as a fig-tree casteth her green figs when she is i shaken
462 11 | But inasmuch as, on other grounds, it is evident what is eternal
463 13 | gratitude for good things, nor grudge for evil ones, because He
464 37 | reason, which has been in the habit of declaring to you nothing
465 41 | good and evil in a local habitation, when you assert that motion
466 27 | XXVII. SOME HAIR-SPLITTING USE OF WORDS IN WHICH HIS
467 1 | predicted as (one day) to happen. Now, the doctrine of Hermogenes
468 40 | creation, which indeed can hardly with propriety be called
469 13 | possibly have been found a harmony for light and darkness,
470 3 | tissue of his I shall at once hasten to pull abroad. I have been
471 23 | it, yet a heresy has been hatched therefrom; and a specially
472 18 | begotten ("for," says God, "my heart hath emitted my most excellent
473 8 | co-equal, nay more, as His helper; only there is this drawback,
474 29 | form (invisible) and void." Henceforth, then, Matter will have
475 | her
476 | hereby
477 | herein
478 7 | to none nay, greater and higher than all. For, just as all
479 18 | places; moreover, before the hills He generated me, and prior
480 16 | should have lacked ability to hinder its creation.~
481 41 | when inclining neither hither nor thither, inclined not
482 29 | became conspicuous, which was hitherto covered with its watery
483 6 | AND YET IS UNWILLING TO HOLD HIM EQUAL WITH THE DIVINE
484 9 | he enjoyed a precarious holding, and not a lordship, and
485 29 | were withdrawn into their hollow abysses that the dry land
486 44 | pervaded Matter, just as honey the honeycomb. You, however,
487 44 | Matter, just as honey the honeycomb. You, however, affirm that
488 45conc| heavens made, and all their hosts by the breath of His mouth."
489 41 | comparison of a boiler of hot water surging over. Now
490 26 | mention of his subject, i.e. Matter, without even giving
491 14 | whence He made all things, identifies itself with (the question),
492 5 | prevented equality, when an identity of condition is claimed
493 31 | But this example may be an idle one as being derived from
494 3 | a remark for the sake of ignorant persons, of whom Hermogenes
495 2 | II. HERMOGENES, AFTER A PERVERSE
496 3 | III. AN ARGUMENT OF HERMOGENES.
497 1 | good conscience to speak ill of individuals. Moreover,
498 18 | creation of the world, He immediately creates It, and generates
499 36 | immoveable, would then the immobility seem to you to be a moiety
500 12 | except by reason of its immunity from loss. For the same