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501 15 | things were necessary to impart lustre to the good, which
502 13 | unite together, and have imparted to Matter a double nature,
503 34 | because nothing is capable of imparting anything of its own for
504 22 | let it fear the woe which impends on all who add to or take
505 37 | good nor evil; because you imply that it is evil when you
506 34 | made from nothing will be impressed upon us by that ultimate
507 1 | eloquence, and supposes impudence to be firmness, and judges
508 23 | therefrom; and a specially impudent one too, because it is not
509 36 | Just as action is, and impulsion, just as a slip is, or a
510 13 | absolutely good things be imputable to God, just as evil things
511 11 | call that evil to which he imputes evil. Now we lay down this
512 19 | which would not, however, be inapposite. The Greek term for beginning,
513 19 | beginning, is simply a term of inception, not the name of a substance.
514 24 | unable (if I should feel the inclination), to apply it to some particular
515 41 | essences that it did not incline to them. You err, therefore,
516 38 | time ascribe place to it, including it within space and local
517 6 | of all things, and being incomparable to any qualities which he
518 40 | XL. SHAPELESS MATTER AN INCONGRUOUS ORIGIN FOR GOD'S BEAUTIFUL
519 42 | XLII. FURTHER EXPOSURE OF INCONSISTENCIES IN THE OPINIONS OF HERMOGENES
520 35 | points concerning it prove inconsistent with each other, and in
521 41 | this is not turbulence or inconstancy;" but rather the regularity,
522 36 | of substance? Is not this incontrovertible? Suppose you had taken it
523 35 | that there is a certain incorporeality in even substantial things,
524 12 | supposably of an unchangeable and incorruptible nature; and this from the
525 10 | it not have been equally indecorous in Him to have thought of
526 21 | very fact of its not being indicated that it was made of any
527 22 | which had been already made, indicates them by the prophet, and
528 26 | connect the two sentences indissolubly together: "But the earth."
529 32 | us of the creation of the individual parts. You have Wisdom saying, "
530 1 | conscience to speak ill of individuals. Moreover, he despises God'
531 2 | HERMOGENES, AFTER A PERVERSE INDUCTION FROM MERE HERETICAL ASSUMPTIONS,
532 27 | IN WHICH HIS OPPONENT HAD INDULGED.~But you next praise your
533 41 | reproach of unevenness, and inequality, and turbulence. Moreover,
534 9 | IX. SUNDRY INEVITABLE BUT INTOLERABLE CONCLUSIONS
535 14 | more suited to Him than infirmity. If we thus even admit that
536 11 | when He means, indeed, to inflict punishment with injustice.
537 29 | that this earth which we inhabit is the very same which was
538 29 | vain; He formed it to be inhabited." Therefore after it was
539 20 | no other sense than the initial one, we have that (Being)
540 11 | inflict punishment with injustice. But if, on the other hand,
541 11 | the cattle restored in the innocence and integrity of their nature
542 24 | signified. And first I will inquire about the terms. For we
543 19 | indispensable in such an inquiry. They have found their opportunity,
544 39 | you say, show it to be inseparable. And here you have swerved
545 26 | For that very "but" is inserted into the narrative like
546 28 | not agree with that other (insisted on by Hermogenes). For,
547 22 | great a concern for our instruction, that we might know from
548 15 | that the divine might was insufficient for the production of all
549 11 | prove to be invincible and insuperable, as being eternal; and in
550 5 | substance of God must remain intact, by virtue of which He is
551 36 | he contrive to assign an integral portion of Matter to motion,
552 11 | restored in the innocence and integrity of their nature shall be
553 20 | creation); and if He had even intended to create out of matter,
554 19 | first, before anything else intending afterwards to make the rest.
555 28 | subsistent with God, without the interposition indeed of any element at
556 34 | ought to be spiritually interpreted, he will yet be unable to
557 31 | passages, and yet it never intimated that they had been created
558 9 | IX. SUNDRY INEVITABLE BUT INTOLERABLE CONCLUSIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES
559 16 | away with the cause of your introducing Matter. For it is not the
560 15 | reason must be sought for the introduction thereof, why could it not
561 29 | For He did not all at once inundate light with the splendour
562 45conc| incapable of being found out or investigated, except by God alone. Otherwise,
563 45conc| they would be capable of investigation. Therefore, in as far as
564 5 | RATHER AFRAID OF IT. AFTER INVESTING MATTER WITH DIVINE QUALITIES,
565 11 | the evil must prove to be invincible and insuperable, as being
566 15 | from evil matter, since it issued neither from nothing nor
567 34 | accomplishment of those issues which must come to pass
568 4 | IV. HERMOGENES GIVES DIVINE
569 9 | IX. SUNDRY INEVITABLE BUT INTOLERABLE
570 45conc| energies. For this is proved by Jeremiah when he says, "God hath
571 39 | associated with Him in the joint possession of eternity,
572 44 | the world! I suppose He journeyed to it from a long distance,
573 10 | Maker of was evil. What He judged to be evil by not creating
574 1 | impudence to be firmness, and judges it to be the duty of a good
575 11 | vain has God appointed any judgment at all, when He means, indeed,
576 45conc| how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding
577 19 | potter made the basin and the jug first, before anything else
578 41 | assign locality when you keep motion in Matter poised
579 13 | nature, productive of both kinds of fruit, then no longer
580 25 | confidently in the presence of king Midas of another world,
581 18 | mind of the Lord. For "who knoweth the things of God, and the
582 25 | understood. This, as everybody knows, is the name of one of the
583 11 | must be compatible with l an eternal Being, even by
584 45conc| His glory is greater if He laboured. At length on the seventh
585 14 | nothing. For you are now labouring in vain when you try to
586 16 | than that He should have lacked ability to hinder its creation.~
587 17 | THE LEAST FROM IT, WITHOUT LANDING YOURSELF IN AN ABSURDITY.~
588 1 | against heretics of the lateness of their date. For in as
589 39 | Him also the powers, the laws, and the conditions of eternity.
590 2 | as these: He begins with laying down the premiss, that the
591 12 | INTO WHAT CONFUSION THEY LEAD HIM.~Come now, let us suppose
592 1 | Academy and the Porch, he learned there from the Stoics how
593 18 | philosophers, but to be learnt from the words or prophets.
594 10 | blindness of our heretics which leaves them to argue in such a
595 14 | still His own will which led Him to the creation of good
596 21 | the other case would be left in doubt unless it were
597 3 | how neatly does Scripture lend us its aid, when it applies
598 8 | superior to him to whose use he lends his property. On this principle,
599 8 | want of God, but rather lent itself to God, who was in
600 18 | Matter of all Matter, not liable to any end, not diverse
601 6 | however, will make Him a liar. For Matter will be such
602 8 | it rich and abundant and liberal as it was to one who was,
603 | likely
604 29 | kind, and cording to its likeness, and the fruit-tree yielding
605 9 | the restraint of His own limited power, which made Him impotent
606 39 | have swerved from your own lines which you prescribed respecting
607 11 | of the field, when also little children shall play with
608 44 | simply appearing, and a loadstone by approaching it. Now what
609 18 | strengthened above the winds the lofty clouds, and when He secured
610 40 | a barber's looking-glass look like an ass instead of a
611 27 | and say: There is the was, looking as if it pointed to an eternal
612 40 | found himself in a barber's looking-glass look like an ass instead
613 42 | thrown out all your views loosely and at random, in order
614 26 | this "but," and the tie is loosened; so much so that the passage, "
615 1 | turbulent withal, who mistakes loquacity for eloquence, and supposes
616 34 | that which comes to an end loses locality. In like manner
617 12 | reason of its immunity from loss. For the same reason also
618 1 | law of God in defence of lust, and yet despises it in
619 15 | were necessary to impart lustre to the good, which must
620 37 | With a view, however, to re lute the argument whereby you
621 19 | well; whence princes and magistrates are called arkontes. Therefore
622 1 | God's law in his painting, maintaining repeated marriages, alleges
623 11 | pit;" when likewise "the manifestation of the children of God"
624 22 | His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and
625 4 | necessarily be a unique mark of this quality, that it
626 24 | be applied to it, which marks a substance of another kind?
627 1 | with the contagion of your marriage-hacks, and has also failed in
628 1 | painting, maintaining repeated marriages, alleges the law of God
629 30 | us with arguments for his massive pile of Matter. Now, so
630 24 | some particular species of Mater, instead, indeed, of making
631 25 | Hermogenes and the rest of the Materialist heretics, that while the
632 33 | produced I may call their materials, but then even these were
633 20 | creation when He previously meditated on it and arranged it in
634 20 | things at first, because by meditating and arranging His plans
635 34 | wind." "The mountains shall melt like wax at the presence
636 31 | No element but what is a member of that element in which
637 40 | COSMOS. HERMOGENES DOES NOT MEND HIS ARGUMENT BY SUPPOSING
638 41 | would plainly in that case merit the reproach of unevenness,
639 45conc| hands," wherewith "He hath meted out the heaven, and the
640 25 | in the presence of king Midas of another world, according
641 11 | to put away evil from the midst of us;" in that case, moreover,
642 34 | when she is i shaken of a mighty wind." "The mountains shall
643 30 | CREATION, RELEASED FROM THE MISHANDLING OF HERMOGENES.~The following
644 35 | nothing certain? For, if I mistake not, everything must of
645 1 | and turbulent withal, who mistakes loquacity for eloquence,
646 38 | have made it known as a model of antiquity, to set off
647 29 | seas with their teeming monsters. The earth itself He did
648 29 | temper darkness with the moon's assuaging ray. The heaven
649 37 | RESPECTING MATTER, AND SUNDRY MORAL QUALITIES FANCIFULLY ATTRIBUTED
650 45conc| hosts by the breath of His mouth." He is the Lord's right
651 36 | is motion. When anything moves even of itself, its motion
652 22 | every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
653 39 | of its being convertible, mutable, and separable. For its
654 28 | palpable to his senses? If this mystery was revealed to him by God,
655 26 | full; first the subject is named, then it is described. How
656 | namely
657 3 | arguments, Hermogenes? how neatly does Scripture lend us its
658 | Nobody
659 9 | used Matter even of His non-possession of any right to it, on the
660 45conc| they are no parts of a nondescript Matter, but they are the
661 2 | not make, because He was a nonentity. He maintains, moreover,
662 37 | as you introduce to our notice Matter as being neither
663 31 | were on the canal, and the obelisk was reared above them all,
664 31 | not specially mentioned as objects of creation? Or are they
665 10 | way as to betray His own obligation to a substance which belonged
666 38 | ITS ALLEGED INFINITY.~My observations touching the site of Matter,
667 26 | XXVI. THE METHOD OBSERVED IN THE HISTORY OF THE CREATION,
668 41 | this circumstance too it is obvious that Matter is contained
669 6 | God? That Being, in which occur all the properties of God,
670 | off
671 23 | without a cause, you will say. Oh, no! certainly not without
672 18 | except the Father, should be older, and on this account indeed
673 19 | that of order, we do not omit to mention also the name
674 18 | than the Son of God, the only-begotten and first-begotten Word?
675 20 | primal operation of Wisdom, opening as it does the way to the
676 10 | favoured evil; and thus He now opens Himself to the charge of
677 21 | be not contended on the opposite side, that on the same ground
678 40 | Greeks by a term denoting ornament, how can it present the
679 16 | HERMOGENES CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE ORTHODOX CONCLUSION.~On the very
680 41 | would still, of course, oscillate between good and evil; so
681 41 | rather be even and regular, oscillating indeed of its own accord
682 26 | Scripture, which at its very outset proposes to run through
683 30 | must necessarily have one outward appearance; and it has not
684 3 | of its past existence it owed to no one, so that it could
685 45conc| specimen of his own art, and painted his own portrait.~
686 1 | despises God's law in his painting, maintaining repeated marriages,
687 29 | a due order; at first He paled them out, as it were, in
688 28 | being invisible, was not palpable to his senses? If this mystery
689 32 | and crafty men, who, after paltering with the virtual meaning,
690 26 | function) of a conjunctive particle, to connect the two sentences
691 20 | as well as (the other two particulars). In conclusion, I will
692 36 | to them, as actions, or passions, or functions, or desires,
693 18 | all, perhaps, the Son will patiently enough submit to having
694 8 | besides the philosophers those patriarchs of all heresy. For the prophets
695 6 | qualities which we claim as peculiar to God to have always existed,
696 36 | formed out of it. What a peculiarly right reason have we here!
697 1 | with his cautery and his pen. He is a thorough adulterer,
698 18 | s? Indeed, as soon as He perceived It to be necessary for His
699 34 | hands, shall themselves perish. For even as a vesture shall
700 9 | did not form it, but the permitter thereof, as having dominion
701 10 | proclaimed to be good by permitting it to exist. By bearing
702 42 | divinity in this freedom and perpetuity of motion. Only in God motion
703 12 | sure and fixed, just as persistently fixed in evil in the case
704 11 | what proofs does Hermogenes persuade us that Matter is evil?
705 36 | to motion, which does not pertain to substance, but to a certain
706 44 | Stoics maintain that God pervaded Matter, just as honey the
707 1 | CHRISTIANITY, BUT FROM HEATHEN PHILOSOPHY. SOME OF THE TENETS MENTIONED.~
708 30 | arguments for his massive pile of Matter. Now, so discriminating
709 11 | cast into the bottomless pit;" when likewise "the manifestation
710 20 | meditating and arranging His plans therein, He had in fact
711 19 | is the beginning of the plant. But when we employ the
712 11 | also little children shall play with serpents; when the
713 34 | to deposit within us this pledge of His own virtue and power,
714 10 | free from such a doubtful plight, so as to be able to avoid
715 26 | mentioning its existence, pointing out the figure of the thing
716 41 | you keep motion in Matter poised equally distant from both
717 40 | cannot be recognized in the polished, and distinct and well-arranged
718 34 | But I will dry up the pools;" and "they shall seek water,
719 1 | Church to the Academy and the Porch, he learned there from the
720 39 | throughout the universe possess portions of it, that so the whole
721 45conc| art, and painted his own portrait.~
722 4 | many gods as there were possessors of these attributes of God.
723 10 | told at once, although we postpone to another place our distinction
724 39 | share with Him also the powers, the laws, and the conditions
725 27 | HAD INDULGED.~But you next praise your eyebrows, and toss
726 44 | everywhere apparent; whose praises all things chant, even inanimate
727 2 | CREATED ALL THINGS OUT OF PRE-EXISTING MATTER.~Our very bad painter
728 11 | gives us such a command and precept; nay more, in vain has God
729 45conc| turbulent, of a doubtful and precipate and fervid impulse has displayed
730 16 | of nothing, than from the predetermination of another, (which must
731 6 | of God, is sufficiently predetermined without any further comparison.~
732 27 | was created, so that the predicate (was) may appertain to the
733 1 | more ancient rule of truth, predicted as (one day) to happen.
734 19 | reason does the Scripture preface (its record of creation)
735 26 | narrative. First comes a prefatory statement, then follow the
736 18 | enough submit to having that preferred before Him which (by Hermogenes),
737 8 | TO GOD.~Nay more, he even prefers Matter to God, and rather
738 1 | must all later opinions be prejudged as heresies, being such
739 11 | also believed of God to His prejudice; so that it is without adequate
740 26 | when even before he had premised any mention of his subject,
741 2 | begins with laying down the premiss, that the Lord made all
742 12 | CONTROVERSY CHANGED. THE PREMISSES OF HERMOGENES ACCEPTED,
743 5 | even though this is the prerogative of Matter, both the authority
744 39 | your own lines which you prescribed respecting the person of
745 7 | Being, I meet him with this prescription, that what is eternal and
746 1 | OPINIONS OF HERMOGENES, BY THE PRESCRIPTIVE RULE OF ANTIQUITY SHOWN
747 30 | these blended substances, presented us with arguments for his
748 25 | the case, another question presents itself to us, whether it
749 21 | Matter there was no such pressing need for expressly indicating
750 34 | XXXIV. A PRESUMPTION THAT ALL THINGS WERE CREATED
751 33 | amongst his own colourable pretences (for it was not in his power
752 7 | although, for-sooth, he pretends it to be inferior to Him?~
753 5 | difference in their names prevented equality, when an identity
754 20 | and arrangement being the primal operation of Wisdom, opening
755 2 | painter has coloured this his primary shade absolutely without
756 5 | regarded as the sole and prime Author, as well as the Lord
757 34 | changed is to fall from that primitive state which they lose whilst
758 19 | beginning may be taken for princely authority and power. It
759 19 | of power as well; whence princes and magistrates are called
760 16 | doctrine, which I shall probably have to treat of elsewhere,
761 26 | it was created; it next proceeds to set forth what sort of
762 1 | He falsities by a twofold process with his cautery and his
763 10 | not creating it, He also proclaimed to be good by permitting
764 13 | Matter a double nature, productive of both kinds of fruit,
765 34 | perishable. This is the promise He makes even to our flesh,
766 10 | proved Himself to be the promoter thereof; criminally, if
767 26 | name, he all on a sudden promulged its form and condition,
768 22 | HERMOGENES IN DANGER OF THE WOE PRONOUNCED AGAINST ADDING TO SCRIPTURE.~
769 19 | side vainly endeavour to prop up their conjectures, with
770 6 | in which occur all the properties of God, is sufficiently
771 18 | natural, and proper, and duly proportioned, and beautiful, such truly
772 35 | XXXV. CONTRADICTORY PROPOSITIONS ADVANCED BY HERMOGENES RESPECTING
773 27 | shall resort to no affected protestation, but simply reply that "
774 34 | THINGS TO NOTHING. SCRIPTURES PROVING THIS REDUCTION VINDICATED
775 42 | apparent, by too close a proximity, how contrary they are to
776 3 | shall at once hasten to pull abroad. I have been willing
777 11 | means, indeed, to inflict punishment with injustice. But if,
778 28 | Hermogenes). For, inasmuch as pure Matter was thus subsistent
779 29 | with its own. For to this purport does David say: "The earth
780 35 | existence), we must for all that pursue our discussion just as if
781 23 | XXIII. HERMOGENES PURSUED TO ANOTHER PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.
782 14 | XIV. TERTULLIAN PUSHES HIS OPPONENT INTO A DILEMMA.~
783 18 | on this ground Hermogenes puts Matter even before God,
784 18 | Matter even before God, by putting it before the Son. Because
785 14 | own power, then some other questions will with equal reason arise.
786 40 | Matter, since they have quit-ted its condition, by being
787 41 | XLI. SUNDRY QUOTATIONS FROM HERMOGENES. NOW UNCERTAIN
788 12 | Then will "children not be raised up to Abraham from the stones?"
789 29 | with waters, as if with the rampart of its fecundating moisture,
790 42 | your views loosely and at random, in order that it might
791 29 | with the moon's assuaging ray. The heaven He did not all
792 37 | With a view, however, to re lute the argument whereby
793 24 | about the terms. For we read only of one of them Earth;
794 31 | canal, and the obelisk was reared above them all, would it
795 29 | visible. I must likewise recognize it as a completed thing,
796 40 | unarranged portion cannot be recognized in the polished, and distinct
797 17 | to Him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?" Surely none!
798 19 | the Scripture preface (its record of creation) with the words,"
799 10 | STRAITS HERMOGENES ABSURDLY REDUCES THE DIVINE BEING. HE DOES
800 20 | When Wisdom, however, was referred to, it was quite right to
801 32 | the face of the waters," refers to Matter, as indeed do
802 40 | You say that Matter was reformed for the betters from a worse
803 31 | theatre? Did I not, indeed, refrain from specially mentioning
804 32 | the waters, balancing and refreshing and animating all things:
805 5 | wish that what he does not refuse to Matter should be, after
806 35 | MATTER AND ITS QUALITIES.~As regards all other points touching
807 43 | in Matter, before it was regulated, was confused, restless,
808 43 | But it waited for the regulation of God, and kept its irregular
809 3 | LORD AND FATHER ARE ONLY RELATIVE APPELLATIONS, NOT ETERNALLY
810 30 | HISTORY OF THE CREATION, RELEASED FROM THE MISHANDLING OF
811 25 | thing, there is likewise a relinquishment of its name with a propriety
812 5 | the substance of God must remain intact, by virtue of which
813 37 | have been well if you had remembered in other passages also,
814 29 | having made it in vain, by rendering it visible, and so fit for
815 37 | us. I shall not stop to repeat my opinion, that it was
816 1 | his painting, maintaining repeated marriages, alleges the law
817 12 | bring forth the fruit of repentance?" And "children of wrath"
818 30 | face of the waters," He repudiated all confusion in the substances;
819 7 | admit of qualities which are repugnant to God I mean diminution
820 15 | ALL THINGS FROM NOTHING, RESCUED FROM THE OPPONENT'S FLOUNDERINGS.~
821 7 | consist. Now we must not resemble the heathen in our opinions;
822 7 | unmade and eternal it must be resident in both alike, because in
823 2 | might thence affirm the residuary proposition that He made
824 23 | form, and void." For he resolves the word earth into Matter,
825 27 | for my own part, I shall resort to no affected protestation,
826 8 | Matter. For if He drew His resources from it for the creation
827 45conc| length on the seventh day He rested from His works. Both one
828 11 | vanity;" when the cattle restored in the innocence and integrity
829 9 | owing, of course, to the restraint of His own limited power,
830 21 | may, of coursed be thus retorted easily enough; but it does
831 37 | make before. Indeed, you retract what you declared that Matter
832 20 | does not in like manner reveal to me the source from which
833 22 | heaven and the earth." I revere the fulness of His Scripture,
834 8 | God, who was in want of it rich and abundant and liberal
835 45conc| exclaims: "O the depth of the riches both of His wisdom and knowledge!
836 6 | to it that we do not in ridicule turn the tables on him,
837 34 | Lord;" that is, "when He riseth to shake terribly the earth." "
838 21 | there will be a similar risk of its seeming to have been
839 34 | the very heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll;'"
840 40 | follows, then, that this rude, and confused, and unarranged
841 26 | very outset proposes to run through the order thereof
842 12 | would lose so the opinion runs what it once was, in becoming
843 30 | ANOTHER PASSAGE IN THE SACRED HISTORY OF THE CREATION,
844 6 | God's attribute is still safe to Him, of being the only
845 29 | speak when he said, "Thus saith the Lord that created the
846 3 | to add a remark for the sake of ignorant persons, of
847 34 | be rolled together as a scroll;'" nay, it shall come to
848 34 | shall find none." Even" the sea shall be no more." Now if
849 15 | evil likewise, in order to secure His being alone acknowledged
850 18 | lofty clouds, and when He secured the fountains which are
851 34 | pools;" and "they shall seek water, and they shall find
852 | seemed
853 45conc| creation of the world clearly seen by the things that are made;
854 28 | was not palpable to his senses? If this mystery was revealed
855 45conc| Matter, but they are the sensible evidences of Himself. "For
856 29 | therefore follows that the sentence, "Now the earth was without
857 26 | particle, to connect the two sentences indissolubly together: "
858 39 | convertible, mutable, and separable. For its changes, you say,
859 29 | earth which God mentioned separately along with the heaven.~
860 6 | contemporaries there is no sequence of rank. Is then, Matter
861 16 | XVI. A SERIES OF DILEMMAS. THEY SHOW THAT
862 11 | children shall play with serpents; when the Father shall have
863 3 | in order that they might serve Him. Do I seem to you to
864 8 | out of nothing. A grand service, verily, did it confer on
865 14 | unwilling; and as an act of servitude, because from necessity.
866 43 | from evil; and if by God's setting it in order it relinquished
867 18 | before the mountains were settled in their places; moreover,
868 45conc| laboured. At length on the seventh day He rested from His works.
869 30 | in this passage), which severally designates" darkness," "
870 29 | about to become such by its severance from the moisture, but yet "
871 2 | coloured this his primary shade absolutely without any light,
872 34 | that is, "when He riseth to shake terribly the earth." "But
873 34 | green figs when she is i shaken of a mighty wind." "The
874 10 | non-existence. And what is more shameful than this? When He willed
875 39 | eternity, it must needs share with Him also the powers,
876 | she
877 6 | VI. THE SHIFTS TO WHICH HERMOGENES IS REDUCED,
878 22 | is written, Hermogenes' shop must tell us. If it is nowhere
879 1 | accustomed, for the purpose of shortening argument, to lay down the
880 9 | such power as He possessed, showed the necessity He was under
881 15 | the question is completely shut up in a corner, where they
882 41 | equally distant from both sides.~
883 24 | thought that Matter was signified. And first I will inquire
884 22 | them, He confirms (by that silence our assertion) that they
885 25 | credence must be given to that Silenus who talked so confidently
886 21 | something, there will be a similar risk of its seeming to have
887 44 | approaching it. Now what similarity is there in God forming
888 43 | further remark. Following the simile of the boiling caldron,
889 39 | when you say, "All things simultaneously throughout the universe
890 23 | opinions of his I will refute singly; but first I wish to say
891 4 | what will be unique and singular, if that is not which has
892 38 | observations touching the site of Matter, as also concerning
893 36 | here! Only if you make your sketches as right as you make your
894 31 | God; so again it speaks of skin and bones, and flesh and
895 32 | things which are under the sky, I was fashioning them along
896 14 | evil, than that He is a slave. Power, whatever it be,
897 36 | and impulsion, just as a slip is, or a fall, so is motion.
898 41 | motion, that I may show how slippery you are at every step. Motion
899 43 | motion. Now observe how many slips you make respecting the
900 8 | who was, I suppose, too small, and too weak, and too unskilful,
901 16 | author of evil, in what way soever He created evil out of Matter,
902 | SOMEHOW
903 | sometimes
904 8 | be sure, Matter bestowed somewhat on itself also even to get
905 15 | some other reason must be sought for the introduction thereof,
906 15 | proceed from some one of those sources from which he has denied
907 6 | things), and with God their Sovereign. In this way he proposes
908 3 | destined to understand His sovereignty in a way of special propriety,
909 45conc| heaven, and the earth with a span." Do not be willing so to
910 26 | which the Scripture had been speaking at that very moment. For
911 24 | apply it to some particular species of Mater, instead, indeed,
912 45conc| impulse has displayed a specimen of his own art, and painted
913 34 | these passages ought to be spiritually interpreted, he will yet
914 36 | corporeal, and incorporeal in spite of the declaration of that
915 29 | inundate light with the splendour of the sun, nor all at once
916 31 | theatre and a circus, but the stage was of such and such a kind,
917 7 | other; but that they both stand on a par in greatness, on
918 5 | Ye are gods," and, "God standeth in the congregation of the
919 11 | But, as the argument now stands, since what is eternal can
920 45conc| CONCLUSION. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE STATEMENTS OF HERMOGENES AND THE TESTIMONY
921 31 | and such a kind, and the statues were on the canal, and the
922 34 | nothing, as if it had been steeped in death, in the sense,
923 41 | slippery you are at every step. Motion in Matter was disordered,
924 14 | creation out of an evil stock unwillingly, no doubt, as
925 36 | say that either a man or a stone was both corporeal and incorporeal
926 | stop
927 6 | to any qualities which he straightway ascribes to Matter also.
928 10 | X. TO WHAT STRAITS HERMOGENES ABSURDLY REDUCES
929 25 | something else, and is a stranger to its nature. But (you
930 29 | upon the seas, and on the streams hath He established it."
931 18 | present with Him; and when He strengthened above the winds the lofty
932 32 | also Amos says, "He that strengtheneth the thunder, and createth
933 45conc| are the energies by the stress of which He made this universe.
934 8 | and God is thereby clearly subjected to Matter, of which the
935 7 | in greatness, on a par in sublimity, and on the same level of
936 18 | Son will patiently enough submit to having that preferred
937 31 | and sweat and blood, in subsequent passages, and yet it never
938 13 | clear proof that He has been subservient to Matter.~
939 28 | as pure Matter was thus subsistent with God, without the interposition
940 41 | say: "Matter, which is the substratum (of creation) possessing
941 27 | Such are the trifles and subtleties of heretics, who wrest and
942 26 | us its name, he all on a sudden promulged its form and condition,
943 9 | should be created by the mere sufferance of another, or by violence,
944 17 | have made even evil things suitably to the nature not of Himself,
945 16 | liberty, not necessity, which suits the character of God. I
946 29 | with the splendour of the sun, nor all at once temper
947 21 | WORLD WAS MADE OF NOTHING IS SUPERFLUOUS.~But, you will say to me,
948 20 | will apply the Gospel as a supplementary testimony to the Old Testament.
949 19 | of appearing to have the support of that authority which
950 12 | unmade, unborn, and therefore supposably of an unchangeable and incorruptible
951 14 | too, be a discreditable supposition yet, at any rate, when He
952 10 | the belief of another God supremely good, on the ground of their
953 41 | of a boiler of hot water surging over. Now how is it, that
954 24 | the same object has the surname Earth, in order that he
955 31 | and flesh and eyes, and sweat and blood, in subsequent
956 13 | light and darkness, for sweet and bitter? So again, if
957 39 | inseparable. And here you have swerved from your own lines which
958 33 | produced the animals which swim and fly. The original fabrics
959 41 | to either side. It would swing, as the phrase is, in a
960 6 | the same; but He has also sworn sometimes by Himself, that
961 25 | both form, and beauty, and symmetry; and therefore that the
962 34 | out of chimerical ones; t because nothing is capable
963 6 | not in ridicule turn the tables on him, that God similarly
964 1 | doctrine of Hermogenes has this taint of novelty. He is, in short,
965 1 | Him another being, nay, he takes from Him everything which
966 25 | given to that Silenus who talked so confidently in the presence
967 25 | elements; for so we are taught by nature first, and afterwards
968 32 | Scripture in other passages teaches us of the creation of the
969 29 | fill the seas with their teeming monsters. The earth itself
970 29 | the sun, nor all at once temper darkness with the moon's
971 41 | evil, but yet not prone or tending to either side. It would
972 41 | motion in an equable impulse, tends in no very great degree
973 1 | PHILOSOPHY. SOME OF THE TENETS MENTIONED.~WE are accustomed,
974 27 | whatever thing the first tense of the verb is applicable
975 12 | beginning, may have also a termination. But bear in mind that Matter
976 34 | when He riseth to shake terribly the earth." "But I will
977 33 | Matter is brought to the test of the Scriptures, and fails
978 3 | Lord God commanded Adam." Thenceforth He, who was previously God
979 25 | according to the account of Theopompus. But the same author informs
980 36 | XXXVI. OTHER ABSURD THEORIES RESPECTING MATTER AND ITS
981 7 | HERMOGENES HELD TO HIS THEORY IN ORDER THAT ITS ABSURDITY
982 | thereby
983 23 | heresy has been hatched therefrom; and a specially impudent
984 26 | made, and binds the sense thereunto. Take away this "but," and
985 10 | on the ground of their thinking the Creator to be the author
986 41 | inclining neither hither nor thither, inclined not to the places
987 1 | cautery and his pen. He is a thorough adulterer, both doctrinally
988 12 | as these, my friend, is a thoughtless one. For things which owe
989 16 | CONCLUSION.~On the very threshoId, then, of this doctrine,
990 42 | QUALITIES OF MATTER.~You have thrown out all your views loosely
991 32 | He that strengtheneth the thunder, and createth the wind,
992 26 | away this "but," and the tie is loosened; so much so
993 3 | Lord thereof. Now, this tissue of his I shall at once hasten
994 3 | when it applies the two titles to Him with a distinction,
995 27 | praise your eyebrows, and toss back your head, and beckon
996 5 | God; since, by not having total (divinity), it cannot correspond
997 45conc| Otherwise, if they were traceable or discoverable in Matter,
998 37 | under control by Him, and trained to something better. But
999 19 | It was, indeed, in His transcendent authority and power, that
1000 37 | however, we have already treated to some extent of this ambiguity
1001 17 | both the design and the treatment of its order as being "the
1002 26 | Similarly it (afterwards) treats of man: "And God created