Chapter

 1 1|       call himself the Supreme Virtue, that is, the Supreme God;
 2 1|  affirming that the innascible Virtue, that is God, abides in
 3 1|     this light and this higher virtue was, thanks to mercy, the
 4 1|      of Him issued Providence, Virtue, and Wisdom; that out of
 5 2|     emitted out of himself the Virtue and similitude of the serpent;
 6 2| serpent; and this had been the Virtue in paradise that is, this
 7 2|      conceived of some. potent Virtue which operated in him; for
 8 2|       conceived of an inferior Virtue, and accordingly had been
 9 2|  angels; for this reason, that Virtue which was above all the
10 2|  beings; for which reason that Virtue which (as we have said)
11 3|      affirms that there is one Virtue, the chief among the upper (
12 6|    beside Him, withal, another Virtue, which he affirms to be
13 8|        he says, was a heavenly Virtue of pre-eminent grace; in