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1001  III, 24, 1  |             always, by the Spirit of God, renewing its youth, as
1002  III, 24, 1  |         youth also. For this gift of God has been entrusted to the
1003  III, 24, 1  |              the ladder of ascent to God. "For in the Church," it
1004  III, 24, 1  |            the Church," it is said, "God hath set apostles, prophets,
1005  III, 24, 1  |               there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of
1006  III, 24, 1  |              and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church,
1007  III, 24, 2  |            Creator, Him who is truly God, who also furnishes power
1008  III, 24, 2  |              have discovered another god beyond God, or another Pleroma,
1009  III, 24, 2  |        discovered another god beyond God, or another Pleroma, or
1010  III, 24, 2  |              the light which is from God does not illumine them,
1011  III, 24, 2  |             dishonoured and despised God, holding Him of small account,
1012  III, 24, 2  |              He who is the only true God); but they dream of a non-existent
1013  III, 24, 2  |           having found out the great God, whom nobody, [they hold,]
1014  III, 24, 2  |            to say, they find out the god of Epicurus, who does nothing
1015  III, 25     |              RULED PROVIDENCE OF ONE GOD, WHO IS BOTH ENDOWED WITH
1016  III, 25, 1  |                                      God does, however, exercise
1017  III, 25, 1  |       derived from the providence of God. And, for this reason certain
1018  III, 25, 2  |        reckoning that as unworthy of God, and thinking that they
1019  III, 25, 2  |            that they had found out a God both without anger and [
1020  III, 25, 2  |          they have alleged that one [God] judges, but that another
1021  III, 25, 2  |             the other hand, the good God, if he is merely good, and
1022  III, 25, 3  |      therefore, himself, by dividing God into two, maintaining one
1023  III, 25, 3  |            if he be not good, is not God, because he from whom goodness
1024  III, 25, 3  |             goodness is absent is no God at all; and again, he who
1025  III, 25, 4  |                                  The God, therefore, who does benevolently
1026  III, 25, 5  |             he allowed that the same God was both just and good,
1027  III, 25, 5  |        expressing himself thus, "And God indeed, as He is also the
1028  III, 25, 5  |         establishing the goodness of God, as the beginning and the
1029  III, 25, 5  |           and lamenting, nor another God or Father.~6.
1030  III, 25, 6  |              beyond the knowledge of God, and that their entire multitude
1031  III, 25, 6  |             father, that is, without God, a female from a female,
1032  III, 25, 7  |           converted to the Church of God, may be lawfully begotten,
1033  III, 25, 7  |              universe, the only true God and Lord of all. We pray
1034  III, 25, 7  |           their Creator, who is both God alone, and the Father of
1035   IV, pref, 3|         Maker and Framer, who is one God, as I have shown, was produced
1036   IV, pref, 4|        notice of the Lord; wherefore God assigned him the form and
1037   IV, pref, 4|           teaching blasphemy against God our Maker and Supporter,
1038   IV, pref, 4|         formed after the likeness of God, and moulded by His hands,
1039   IV, pref, 4|              and blasphemous against God the Creator. For whatsoever
1040   IV, pref, 4|            disallow the salvation of God's workmanship, which the
1041   IV, pref, 4|             of ways, that the Son of God accomplished the whole dispensation [
1042   IV, pref, 4|           there is none other called God by the Scriptures except
1043   IV,  1     |            LORD ACKNOWLEDGED BUT ONE GOD AND FATHER.~1.
1044   IV,  1, 1  |              stedfast, that no other God or Lord was announced by
1045   IV,  1, 1  |           Spirit, except Him who, as God, rules over all, together
1046   IV,  1, 1  |          believe in the one and true God, and in Jesus Christ the
1047   IV,  1, 1  |              Jesus Christ the Son of God; and likewise that the apostles
1048   IV,  1, 1  |       themselves term no one else as God, or name [no other] as Lord;
1049   IV,  1, 1  |              heavens, who is the one God and the one Father;--those
1050   IV,  1, 1  |           invented is by nature both God and Father; but that the
1051   IV,  1, 1  |        Demiurge is naturally neither God nor Father, but is so termed
1052   IV,  1, 1  |       setting their thoughts against God; and, putting aside the
1053   IV,  1, 1  |           the entire dispensation of God. For they maintain that
1054   IV,  1, 2  |         disciples to know [only] one God, and to call Him alone Father?
1055   IV,  1, 2  |          gods, from Him who is truly God, that they should not err
1056   IV,  1, 2  |            call one Being Father and God, while He does from time
1057   IV,  1, 2  |          they confess the Creator as God, and Lord, and Father, as
1058   IV,  1, 2  |            shown--if He is not alone God and Father. Jesus, therefore,
1059   IV,  2     |        CHRIST, THAT THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD,
1060   IV,  2, 1  |           that words were uttered by God, who made heaven and earth,
1061   IV,  2, 1  |          again: "Thus saith the LORD God, who made the heaven, and
1062   IV,  2, 2  |              others have invented as god (whom I indeed have amply
1063   IV,  2, 2  |          amply demonstrated to be no god at all); or shall it be (
1064   IV,  2, 2  |               O Israel; The Lord thy God is one God?"~3.
1065   IV,  2, 2  |              The Lord thy God is one God?"~3.
1066   IV,  2, 4  |             of his lusts, and forget God. "For there was," He says, "
1067   IV,  2, 4  |              regard not the works of God, neither do they consider
1068   IV,  2, 4  |             had preached, the Son of God, who rose from the dead,
1069   IV,  2, 4  |             the coming of the Son of God. But those who scoff [at
1070   IV,  2, 5  |            parables Him who truly is God. He says: "Swear not at
1071   IV,  2, 5  |         neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth,
1072   IV,  2, 5  |              Being there is no other God; otherwise He would not
1073   IV,  2, 5  |           termed by the Lord either" God" or" the great King;" for
1074   IV,  2, 5  |          never can be called either "God" or "the great King."~6.
1075   IV,  2, 6  |             if He did preach another God? But [He did so], that He
1076   IV,  2, 6  |             law had begun to despise God, did not receive His Word,
1077   IV,  2, 7  |                But as many as feared God, and were anxious about
1078   IV,  2, 7  |              believing in the Son of God; nay, but it even exhorted
1079   IV,  3     |             TO SUPPOSE THAT THE TRUE GOD CAN BE CHANGED, OR COME
1080   IV,  3, 1  |              is indeed the throne of God, and earth His footstool,
1081   IV,  3, 1  |             when these pass away the God who sitteth above must also
1082   IV,  3, 1  |           therefore He cannot be the God who is over all; in the
1083   IV,  3, 1  |            For they do not know what God is, but they imagine that
1084   IV,  3, 1  |          passes away, not only shall God remain, but His servants
1085   IV,  3, 1  |            that doth endure for ever God, together with His servants.
1086   IV,  4     |        SUPREME MAJESTY' AND POWER OF GOD, FOR THAT THIS DESTRUCTION
1087   IV,  4     |             WISE COUNSEL OF THE SAME GOD. ~1.
1088   IV,  4, 1  |             straw were a creation of God, it would never part company
1089   IV,  4, 1  |           the vine twigs, if made by God, never would be lopped away
1090   IV,  4, 1  |             times was not subject to God when death was reigning,
1091   IV,  4, 2  |           covenant was revealed. For God does all things by measure
1092   IV,  4, 3  |              in this respect like to God, having been made free in
1093   IV,  4, 3  |         opposed the righteousness of God, giving himself over to
1094   IV,  5     |         SHOWS THAT THERE WAS BUT ONE GOD ANNOUNCED BY THE LAW AND
1095   IV,  5     |         THROUGH HIS WORD, ONE LIVING GOD WITH HIM, MADE HIMSELF KNOWN
1096   IV,  5, 1  |                                      God, therefore, is one and the
1097   IV,  5, 1  |         Creator, and He it is who is God over all, as Esaias says, "
1098   IV,  5, 1  |              witness, saith the LORD God, and my servant whom I have
1099   IV,  5, 1  |         Before me there was no other God, neither shall be after
1100   IV,  5, 1  |              shall be after me. I am God, and besides me there is
1101   IV,  5, 1  |                I myself am the first God, and I am above things to
1102   IV,  5, 1  |              was impossible, without God, to come to a knowledge
1103   IV,  5, 1  |            to come to a knowledge of God, He teaches men, through
1104   IV,  5, 1  |            through His Word, to know God. To those, therefore, who
1105   IV,  5, 1  |         Scriptures, nor the power of God." ~2.
1106   IV,  5, 2  |           who do therefore dishonour God, and lower the credit of
1107   IV,  5, 2  |             resurrection, and reveal God, saying to them, "Ye do
1108   IV,  5, 2  |         Scriptures, nor the power of God." "For, touching the resurrection
1109   IV,  5, 2  |             that which was spoken by God, saying, I am the God of
1110   IV,  5, 2  |             by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
1111   IV,  5, 2  |              the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
1112   IV,  5, 2  |            the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? And He added, "
1113   IV,  5, 2  |             He added, "He is not the God of the dead, but of the
1114   IV,  5, 2  |           declared Himself to be the God of the fathers, He is the
1115   IV,  5, 2  |            of the fathers, He is the God of the living. For who is
1116   IV,  5, 2  |           the living. For who is the God of the living unless He
1117   IV,  5, 2  |              living unless He who is God, and above whom there is
1118   IV,  5, 2  |         above whom there is no other God? Whom also Daniel the prophet,
1119   IV,  5, 2  |           with hands, but the living God, who established the heaven
1120   IV,  5, 2  |             I will adore the Lord my God, because He is the living
1121   IV,  5, 2  |             because He is the living God." He, then, who was adored
1122   IV,  5, 2  |           the prophets as the living God, He is the God of the living;
1123   IV,  5, 2  |            the living God, He is the God of the living; and His Word
1124   IV,  5, 2  |             is, the resurrection and God [in His true character].
1125   IV,  5, 2  |     character]. For if He be not the God of the dead, but of the
1126   IV,  5, 2  |           living, yet was called the God of the fathers who were
1127   IV,  5, 2  |          they do indubitably live to God, and have not passed out
1128   IV,  5, 2  |              with the Father, is the God of the living, who spake
1129   IV,  5, 3  |          intended? "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
1130   IV,  5, 3  |           heaven and earth, the only God; and in the next place,
1131   IV,  5, 3  |              he followed the Word of God, walking as a pilgrim with
1132   IV,  5, 4  |     accustomed to follow the Word of God. For Abraham, according
1133   IV,  5, 4  |           the command of the Word of God, and with a ready mind delivered
1134   IV,  5, 4  |      delivered up, as a sacrifice to God, his only-begotten and beloved
1135   IV,  5, 4  |           beloved son, in order that God also might be pleased to
1136   IV,  5, 5  |       example of his faith, trust in God, should be saved, he rejoiced
1137   IV,  5, 5  |     righteousness. For faith towards God justifies a man; and therefore
1138   IV,  5, 5  |             my hand to the most high God, who made the heaven and
1139   IV,  6, 1  |               had [the knowledge of] God, while they nevertheless
1140   IV,  6, 1  |      rejected His Word, through whom God is made known, declared, "
1141   IV,  6, 1  |            explain it as if the true God were known to none prior
1142   IV,  6, 1  |              Lord's advent; and that God who was announced by the
1143   IV,  6, 1  |            it necessary that another God should be proclaimed, but [
1144   IV,  6, 1  |             would indeed both change God, and destroy our faith in
1145   IV,  6, 1  |              came to us from the one God, who both made this world
1146   IV,  6, 1  |            to the Father immoveable, God bestowing both upon us."~
1147   IV,  6, 2  |           unless through the Word of God, that is, unless by the
1148   IV,  6, 3  |              of these was the Son of God; but Christ Jesus our Lord [
1149   IV,  6, 3  |          daring to preach an unknown God. But they ought to hear [
1150   IV,  6, 3  |             Never mind seeking after God; for He is unknown, and
1151   IV,  6, 3  |            man is capable of knowing God, unless he be taught of
1152   IV,  6, 3  |               unless he be taught of God; that is, that God cannot
1153   IV,  6, 3  |         taught of God; that is, that God cannot be known without
1154   IV,  6, 3  |              cannot be known without God: but that this is the express
1155   IV,  6, 3  |             will of the Father, that God should be known. For they
1156   IV,  6, 4  |            the righteous judgment of God [shall fall] upon all who,
1157   IV,  6, 5  |             itself, the Word reveals God the Creator; and by means
1158   IV,  6, 5  |           earth], and they named Him God. Yea, even the demons exclaimed,
1159   IV,  6, 5  |            Thou art, the Holy One of God."' And the devil looking
1160   IV,  6, 5  |               If Thou art the Son of God;"--all thus indeed seeing
1161   IV,  6, 6  |            man, and that He was very God, from the Father, from the
1162   IV,  6, 6  |              attain the knowledge of God. For the Son is the knowledge
1163   IV,  6, 6  |             all things, there is one God, the Father, and one Word,
1164   IV,  7     |             THE COMING OF THE SON OF GOD. FOR THIS CAUSE, HE REJOICED
1165   IV,  7     |          JEWS WHO REJECT THE WORD OF GOD.~1.
1166   IV,  7, 1  |           earth, confessed Him to be God; and having learned, by
1167   IV,  7, 1  |             to him], that the Son of God would be a man among men,
1168   IV,  7, 1  |              spirit hath rejoiced in God my salvation;"--the rejoicing
1169   IV,  7, 2  |           out how all who have known God from the beginning, and
1170   IV,  7, 2  |             fulfil the promise which God had given him, and that
1171   IV,  7, 2  |          John the Baptist says: "For God is able from these stones
1172   IV,  7, 3  |           therefore one and the same God, who called Abraham and
1173   IV,  7, 3  |            the Son, can any man know God. Wherefore did the Lord
1174   IV,  7, 4  |          have the Jews departed from God, in not receiving His Word,
1175   IV,  7, 4  |          they being ignorant of that God who spake in human shape
1176   IV,  7, 4  |              Son, who is the Word of God, arranged these things beforehand
1177   IV,  8, 1  |           witness, that "he believed God, and it was imputed unto
1178   IV,  8, 1  |            frame the idea of another God besides Him who made the
1179   IV,  8, 1  |           are outside the kingdom of God, and are disinherited from [
1180   IV,  8, 1  |            at naught and blaspheming God, who introduces, through
1181   IV,  8, 2  |            high priest, propitiating God for men, and cleansing the
1182   IV,  8, 3  |            he went into the house of God, and ate the shew-bread,
1183   IV,  8, 3  |           been appointed a priest by God, although Saul persecuted
1184   IV,  8, 3  |          lands nor houses, but serve God and the altar continually.
1185   IV,  8, 3  |            on account of the word of God and His covenant, unless
1186   IV,  8, 3  |            dry wood into the camp of God, and was justly stoned to
1187   IV,  8, 3  |           shall defile the temple of God, him shall God defile."~
1188   IV,  8, 3  |             temple of God, him shall God defile."~
1189   IV,  9, 1  |            is, from one and the same God; as also the Lord says to
1190   IV,  9, 1  |          both covenants, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ,
1191   IV,  9, 2  |               but He does not change God, nor proclaim another Father,
1192   IV,  9, 2  |            And as their love towards God increases, He bestows more
1193   IV,  9, 2  |            heart: for they shall see God"); neither shall we look
1194   IV,  9, 2  |            another Christ and Son of God, but Him who [was born]
1195   IV,  9, 2  |            that day, Behold our LORD God, in whom we have trusted,
1196   IV,  9, 2  |             shall enjoy the gifts of God;--so also now, receiving
1197   IV,  9, 2  |             the advent of the Son of God, we have not been taught
1198   IV,  9, 2  |              not been taught another God besides the Framer and the
1199   IV,  9, 2  |           another Christ, the Son of God, besides Him who was foretold
1200   IV,  9, 3  |              been revealed to men as God pleased; that they might
1201   IV,  9, 3  |             is one salvation and one God; but the precepts which
1202   IV,  9, 3  |              steps which lead man to God are not a few. It is allowable
1203   IV,  9, 3  |              this then be lawful for God, since He is [ever] the
1204   IV,  9, 3  |               will never rest in one God. For, being driven away
1205   IV,  9, 3  |          away from Him who truly is [God], and being turned backwards,
1206   IV,  9, 3  |             yet shall never find out God; but shall continually swim
1207   IV,  9, 3  |             cast out, confessing one God, the Father, the Creator,
1208   IV,  9, 3  |              ye make void the law of God by reason of your tradition?
1209   IV,  9, 3  |        reason of your tradition? For God said, Honour thy father
1210   IV,  9, 3  |           have made void the word of God by reason of your tradition;"
1211   IV,  9, 3  |          manner Him to be Father and God, who said in the law, "Honour
1212   IV,  9, 3  |             with thee." For the true God did confess the commandment
1213   IV,  9, 3  |            of the law as the word of God, and called no one else
1214   IV,  9, 3  |               and called no one else God besides His own Father.~
1215   IV, 10     |           MAKE MENTION OF THE SON OF GOD, AND FORETELL HIS ADVENT
1216   IV, 10     |         INSPIRED BY ONE AND THE SAME GOD.~1.
1217   IV, 10, 1  |            doubt, because the Son of God is implanted everywhere
1218   IV, 10, 1  |     occasions] upon which the Son of God is shown forth by Moses.
1219   IV, 10, 1  |            thy cities which the LORD God gives thee; but in the place
1220   IV, 10, 1  |             place which the LORD thy God shall choose that His name
1221   IV, 11, 1  |        believers by one and the same God through the Word; He at
1222   IV, 11, 2  |                  And in this respect God differs from man, that God
1223   IV, 11, 2  |           God differs from man, that God indeed makes, but man is
1224   IV, 11, 2  |          addition, and increase. And God does indeed create after
1225   IV, 11, 2  |             he is created skilfully. God also is truly perfect in
1226   IV, 11, 2  |     advancement and increase towards God. For as God is always the
1227   IV, 11, 2  |         increase towards God. For as God is always the same, so also
1228   IV, 11, 2  |              also man, when found in God, shall always go on towards
1229   IV, 11, 2  |           shall always go on towards God. For neither does God at
1230   IV, 11, 2  |        towards God. For neither does God at any time cease to confer
1231   IV, 11, 2  |      benefits, and being enriched by God. For the receptacle of His
1232   IV, 11, 3  |          David concerning the Son of God, was accomplished in His
1233   IV, 11, 3  |              and the dispensation of God; but declaring that it was
1234   IV, 11, 4  |              to those not subject to God, but who follow outward
1235   IV, 11, 4  |         preferring their own zeal to God Himself, while within they
1236   IV, 12, 1  |           with the simple command of God; that is, they set up a
1237   IV, 12, 1  |        transgress the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition?"
1238   IV, 12, 1  |              did they set the law of God at nought, mingling the
1239   IV, 12, 1  |             be subject to the law of God, which prepares them for
1240   IV, 12, 1  |         transgressing the command of God through tradition and the
1241   IV, 12, 1  |            law, which is the love of God.~2.
1242   IV, 12, 2  |             He enjoined them to love God with all their heart, and
1243   IV, 12, 2  |          which had been given by the God of the law. And Paul in
1244   IV, 12, 2  |          that apart from the love of God, neither knowledge avails
1245   IV, 12, 2  |       perfect; and that he who loves God is perfect, both in this
1246   IV, 12, 2  |              never cease from loving God; but in proportion as we
1247   IV, 12, 3  |     commandment is, to love the Lord God with the whole heart, and
1248   IV, 12, 3  |         pointed out [to us] the same God, who certainly has promulgated
1249   IV, 12, 4  |          does not do away with this [God], when He shows that the
1250   IV, 12, 4  |             not derived from another God, expressing Himself as follows
1251   IV, 12, 4  |              unrighteous as respects God, and as respects their neighbours.
1252   IV, 12, 4  |           which they made the law of God of none effect, and were
1253   IV, 12, 4  |              they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going
1254   IV, 12, 4  |              to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of
1255   IV, 12, 4  |           beginning with the Word of God to ascend and descend for
1256   IV, 12, 5  |             to His followers another God the Father, besides Him
1257   IV, 12, 5  |          obey the commandments which God enjoined from the beginning,
1258   IV, 13     |            NOW SET FREE, MIGHT SERVE GOD WITH THAT TRUSTFUL PIETY
1259   IV, 13, 1  |            by faith, and who pleased God, did observe previous to
1260   IV, 13, 1  |            fellowship and unity with God. In the next place, [we
1261   IV, 13, 2  |             man might learn to serve God. But the Word set free the
1262   IV, 13, 2  |            and that he should follow God without fetters: moreover,
1263   IV, 13, 4  |               For to yield assent to God, and to follow His Word,
1264   IV, 13, 4  |              reveal one and the same God. But this is our Lord, the
1265   IV, 13, 4  |             is our Lord, the Word of God, who in the first instance
1266   IV, 13, 4  |             certainly drew slaves to God, but afterwards He set those
1267   IV, 13, 4  |              bondage with respect to God through the law, and then
1268   IV, 13, 4  |            disciples "the friends of God," He plainly declares Himself
1269   IV, 13, 4  |            Himself to be the Word of God, whom Abraham also followed
1270   IV, 13, 4  |             so became "the friend of God." But the Word of God did
1271   IV, 13, 4  |             of God." But the Word of God did not accept of the friendship
1272   IV, 13, 4  |        inasmuch as the friendship of God imparts immortality to those
1273   IV, 14     |                              XIV. IF GOD DEMANDS OBEDIENCE FROM MAN,
1274   IV, 14     |              MAN'S WELFARE; NOT THAT GOD STOOD IN NEED OF MAN, BUT
1275   IV, 14, 1  |            beginning, therefore, did God form Adam, not as if He
1276   IV, 14, 1  |          also, service [rendered] to God does indeed profit God nothing,
1277   IV, 14, 1  |            to God does indeed profit God nothing, nor has God need
1278   IV, 14, 1  |          profit God nothing, nor has God need of human obedience;
1279   IV, 14, 1  |             But for this reason does God demand service from men,
1280   IV, 14, 1  |             service. For, as much as God is in want of nothing, so
1281   IV, 14, 1  |              need of fellowship with God. For this is the glory of
1282   IV, 14, 1  |            and remain permanently in God's service. Wherefore also
1283   IV, 14, 1  |              in following the Son of God, they were glorified by
1284   IV, 14, 2  |               Thus it was, too, that God formed man at the first,
1285   IV, 14, 2  |             the headstrong to follow God; and raised up prophets
1286   IV, 14, 2  |           and to hold communion with God: He Himself, indeed, having
1287   IV, 14, 2  |          waters." For the Spirit [of God] is truly [like] many waters,
1288   IV, 14, 3  |            to persevere and to serve God, calling them to the things
1289   IV, 14, 3  |             his memory] the words of God, and the celestial patterns,
1290   IV, 14, 3  |           types they learned to fear God, and to continue devoted
1291   IV, 15     |                         XV. AT FIRST GOD DEEMED IT SUFFICIENT TO
1292   IV, 15, 1  |       prophecy of future things. For God at the first, indeed, warning
1293   IV, 15, 1  |             indeed cut them off from God, but subjected them to the
1294   IV, 15, 1  |           commandments of the living God to give to us, whom your
1295   IV, 15, 1  |              of their own hands. But God turned, and gave them up
1296   IV, 15, 1  |          Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, figures which ye
1297   IV, 15, 1  |             given to them by another God, but that, adapted to their
1298   IV, 15, 1  |      originated] from the very same [God as we worship]. Wherefore
1299   IV, 15, 2  |       servant, but acknowledging one God, who from the beginning
1300   IV, 15, 2  |         should become apostates from God,--it ought not to be wondered
1301   IV, 15, 2  |           the Old Testament the same God permitted similar indulgences
1302   IV, 15, 2  |        idolatry, nor apostatize from God, but learn to love Him with
1303   IV, 15, 2  |              world (foris); and that God has always preserved freedom,
1304   IV, 16, 1  |           the Scripture itself, that God gave circumcision, not as
1305   IV, 16, 1  |      recognisable. For it declares: "God said unto Abraham, Every
1306   IV, 16, 1  |       sanctify them." And in Exodus, God says to Moses: "And ye shall
1307   IV, 16, 1  |        should continue day by day in God's service. "For we have
1308   IV, 16, 1  |             that is, consecrated [to God], and ministering continually
1309   IV, 16, 1  |             Moreover, the Sabbath of God (requietio Dei), that is,
1310   IV, 16, 1  |           have persevered in serving God (Deo assistere) shall, in
1311   IV, 16, 1  |            state of rest, partake of God's table.~2.
1312   IV, 16, 2  |    observance of Sabbaths, "believed God, and it was imputed unto
1313   IV, 16, 2  |             was called the friend of God." Then, again, Lot, without
1314   IV, 16, 2  |             receiving salvation from God. So also did Noah, pleasing
1315   IV, 16, 2  |              also did Noah, pleasing God, although he was uncircumcised,
1316   IV, 16, 2  |           men]. Enoch, too, pleasing God, without circumcision, discharged
1317   IV, 16, 2  |             discharged the office of God's legate to the angels although
1318   IV, 16, 2  |              of the just judgment of God, because the angels when
1319   IV, 16, 2  |             but the man who pleased [God] was translated for salvation.
1320   IV, 16, 2  |           Deuteronomy: "The LORD thy God formed a covenant in Horeb.
1321   IV, 16, 3  |              that is, they loved the God who made them, and did no
1322   IV, 16, 3  |            righteousness and love to God had passed into oblivion,
1323   IV, 16, 3  |             became extinct in Egypt, God did necessarily, because
1324   IV, 16, 3  |             disciple and follower of God; and He afflicted those
1325   IV, 16, 3  |          alone; but by every word of God proceeding out of His mouth
1326   IV, 16, 3  |              And it enjoined love to God, and taught just dealing
1327   IV, 16, 3  |            be unjust nor unworthy of God, who prepares man for His
1328   IV, 16, 3  |        certainly profit man himself; God, however, standing in no
1329   IV, 16, 4  |              what cloth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to
1330   IV, 16, 4  |             but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways,
1331   IV, 16, 4  |            and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and
1332   IV, 16, 4  |            namely, the friendship of God; but they profited God nothing,
1333   IV, 16, 4  |            of God; but they profited God nothing, for God did not
1334   IV, 16, 4  |            profited God nothing, for God did not at all stand in
1335   IV, 16, 4  |             s love. For the glory of God was wanting to man, which
1336   IV, 16, 4  |            other way than by serving God. And therefore Moses says
1337   IV, 16, 4  |           seed, to love the LORD thy God, to hear His voice, to cleave
1338   IV, 16, 5  |           means of adoption, to know God the Father, and to love
1339   IV, 16, 5  |             we shall give account to God not of deeds only, as slaves,
1340   IV, 17     |                     XVII. PROOF THAT GOD DID NOT APPOINT THE LEVITICAL
1341   IV, 17, 1  |              the fullest manner that God stood in no need of their
1342   IV, 17, 1  |             the law. And again, that God needed not their oblation,
1343   IV, 17, 1  |          abstaining from the love of God, and imagining that God
1344   IV, 17, 1  |              God, and imagining that God was to be propitiated by
1345   IV, 17, 1  |            even thus speak to them: "God does not desire whole burnt-offerings
1346   IV, 17, 1  |            He thus teaches them that God desires obedience, which
1347   IV, 17, 1  |   burnt-offerings. The .sacrifice of God is a broken spirit; a broken
1348   IV, 17, 1  |        despise." Because, therefore, God stands in need of nothing,
1349   IV, 17, 1  |            man) counsel: "Offer unto God the sacrifice of praise,
1350   IV, 17, 1  |       imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does
1351   IV, 17, 1  |          justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does
1352   IV, 17, 2  |             which they shall appease God, that they may receive life
1353   IV, 17, 2  |          declares: "The sacrifice to God is an afflicted heart: a
1354   IV, 17, 2  |             heart: a sweet savour to God is a heart glorifying Him
1355   IV, 17, 2  |            be saved. But inasmuch as God is merciful, He did not
1356   IV, 17, 2  |           things saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Make straight
1357   IV, 17, 3  |            voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people;
1358   IV, 17, 3  |            to the people the will of God, says: "These things does
1359   IV, 17, 4  |             these it is evident that God did not seek sacrifices
1360   IV, 17, 4  |       because of their salvation. As God, when teaching them His
1361   IV, 17, 4  |      sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings."
1362   IV, 17, 5  |            His disciples to offer to God the first-fruits of His
1363   IV, 17, 5  |              the apostles, offers to God throughout all the world,
1364   IV, 17, 5  |           cease to make offerings to God, but that in every place
1365   IV, 17, 6  |              since in the omnipotent God the Church makes offerings
1366   IV, 18, 1  |             world, is accounted with God a pure sacrifice, and is
1367   IV, 18, 1  |               therefore, to offer to God the first-fruits of His
1368   IV, 18, 1  |             presence of the Lord thy God empty;" so that man, being
1369   IV, 18, 2  |          living into the treasury of God.~3.
1370   IV, 18, 3  |                 For at the beginning God had respect to the gifts
1371   IV, 18, 3  |              against his brother, as God says when reproving his
1372   IV, 18, 3  |           sinned? Be at rest;"~since God is not appeased by sacrifice.
1373   IV, 18, 3  |             nor is under the fear of God;--he who thus cherishes
1374   IV, 18, 3  |          secret sin does not deceive God by that sacrifice which
1375   IV, 18, 3  |               as did also Cain. For [God] said to him, "Be at rest;"
1376   IV, 18, 3  |              to light, may show that God is without blame, and worketh
1377   IV, 18, 3  |            and worketh no evil--that God who reveals what is hidden [
1378   IV, 18, 3  |              given thee from above;" God always giving up the righteous
1379   IV, 18, 3  |              not sanctify a man, for God stands in no need of sacrifice;
1380   IV, 18, 3  |              is pure, and thus moves God to accept [the offering]
1381   IV, 18, 4  |       reckoned a pure sacrifice with God. As Paul also says to the
1382   IV, 18, 4  |              acceptable, pleasing to God." For it behoves us to make
1383   IV, 18, 4  |            us to make an oblation to God, and in all things to be
1384   IV, 18, 4  |              to be found grateful to God our Maker, in a pure mind,
1385   IV, 18, 4  |        through whom it is offered to God. Nor, again, do any of the
1386   IV, 18, 5  |           receives the invocation of God, is no longer common bread,
1387   IV, 18, 6  |            been created. For even as God does not need our possessions,
1388   IV, 18, 6  |           need to offer something to God; as Solomon says: "He that
1389   IV, 18, 6  |          lendeth unto the Lord." For God, who stands in need of nothing,
1390   IV, 18, 6  |            they might learn to serve God: thus is it, therefore,
1391   IV, 18, 6  |       Apocalypse, "And the temple of God was opened:" the tabernacle
1392   IV, 18, 6  |             says, "the tabernacle of God, in which He will dwell
1393   IV, 19     |      ABSOLUTE MADNESS, MAINTAIN THAT GOD IS KNOWN TO US ONLY AS THE
1394   IV, 19, 1  |         mount, from one and the same God, whose name is now glorified
1395   IV, 19, 1  |         however, created by the same God. For in no other way could
1396   IV, 19, 1  |           Pleroma, and [to say] that God is the image of another
1397   IV, 19, 1  |            minds on one and the true God. For their imaginations
1398   IV, 19, 1  |            imaginations range beyond God, they having in their hearts
1399   IV, 19, 1  |           turning away from the true God.~2.
1400   IV, 19, 2  |               To what distance above God do ye lift up your imaginations,
1401   IV, 19, 2  |         treasuries are indeed great: God cannot be measured in the
1402   IV, 19, 2  |       invisible? And for this reason God is "above all principality,
1403   IV, 19, 2  |             us. For he says, "Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar
1404   IV, 19, 2  |             a God at hand, and not a God afar off? If any man is
1405   IV, 19, 3  |              in his heart so great a God? Yet, as if they had now
1406   IV, 19, 3  |          neither of these can be the God of all. But that no one
1407   IV, 19, 3  |              declare the goodness of God from the things made by
1408   IV, 19, 3  |     entertains worthy conceptions of God.~
1409   IV, 20     |                         XX. THAT ONE GOD FORMED ALL THINGS IN THE
1410   IV, 20, 1  |              is not possible to know God, for it is impossible that
1411   IV, 20, 1  |              it is which leads us to God by His Word), when we obey
1412   IV, 20, 1  |             that there is so great a God, and that it is He who by
1413   IV, 20, 1  |             the Scripture says, "And God formed man, taking clay
1414   IV, 20, 1  |            power to make an image of God, nor any one else, except
1415   IV, 20, 1  |            Father of all things. For God did not stand in need of
1416   IV, 20, 2  |            believe that there is one God, who has established all
1417   IV, 20, 2  |             prophets: "Is it not one God who hath established us?
1418   IV, 20, 2  |           apostle say, "There is one God, the Father, who is above
1419   IV, 20, 2  |             all things from the same God who made all things by the
1420   IV, 20, 2  |             that even as the Word of God had the sovereignty in the
1421   IV, 20, 3  |             He declares by Solomon: "God by Wisdom founded the earth,
1422   IV, 20, 4  |               There is therefore one God, who by the Word and Wisdom
1423   IV, 20, 4  |           beginning, that is, man to God. Wherefore the prophets,
1424   IV, 20, 4  |            blending and communion of God and man took place according
1425   IV, 20, 4  |              the Father, the Word of God foretelling from the beginning
1426   IV, 20, 4  |              from the beginning that God should be seen by men, and
1427   IV, 20, 4  |        having embraced the Spirit of God, might pass into the glory
1428   IV, 20, 5  |            prophets was a different [God], the Father of all being
1429   IV, 20, 5  |            indicated beforehand that God should be seen by men; as
1430   IV, 20, 5  |            heart, for they shall see God." But in respect to His
1431   IV, 20, 5  |             glory, "no man shall see God and live," for the Father
1432   IV, 20, 5  |            love Him, that is, to see God, which thing the prophets
1433   IV, 20, 5  |          with men, are possible with God." For man does not see God
1434   IV, 20, 5  |           God." For man does not see God by his own powers; but when
1435   IV, 20, 5  |          wills, and as He wills. For God is powerful in all things,
1436   IV, 20, 5  |          preparing man in the Son of God, and the Son leading him
1437   IV, 20, 5  |          from the fact of his seeing God. For as those who see the
1438   IV, 20, 5  |               even so, those who see God are in God, and receive
1439   IV, 20, 5  |             those who see God are in God, and receive of His splendour.
1440   IV, 20, 5  |            those, therefore, who see God, do receive life. And for
1441   IV, 20, 5  |             found in fellowship with God; but fellowship with God
1442   IV, 20, 5  |             God; but fellowship with God is to know God, and to enjoy
1443   IV, 20, 5  |       fellowship with God is to know God, and to enjoy His goodness.~
1444   IV, 20, 6  |              Men therefore shall see God, that they may live, being
1445   IV, 20, 6  |              and attaining even unto God; which, as I have already
1446   IV, 20, 6  |   figuratively by the prophets, that God should be seen by men who
1447   IV, 20, 6  |           shall see in that day that God will talk to man, and he
1448   IV, 20, 6  |           them. Thus, therefore, was God revealed; for God the Father
1449   IV, 20, 6  |     therefore, was God revealed; for God the Father is shown forth
1450   IV, 20, 6  |       operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
1451   IV, 20, 6  |         worketh all things in all is God, [as to the points] of what
1452   IV, 20, 6  |         nature and how great He is, [God] is invisible and indescribable
1453   IV, 20, 6  |           His Word that there is one God the Father, who contains
1454   IV, 20, 6  |            Gospel: "No man hath seen God at any time, except the
1455   IV, 20, 7  |             dispensations, revealing God indeed to men, but presenting
1456   IV, 20, 7  |           men, but presenting man to God, and preserving at the same
1457   IV, 20, 7  |            time become a despiser of God, and that he should always
1458   IV, 20, 7  |            the other hand, revealing God to men through many dispensations,
1459   IV, 20, 7  |          lest man, failing away from God altogether, should cease
1460   IV, 20, 7  |              exist. For the glory of God is a living man; and the
1461   IV, 20, 7  |            man consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation
1462   IV, 20, 7  |              if the manifestation of God which is made by means of
1463   IV, 20, 7  |           give life to those who see God.~8.
1464   IV, 20, 8  |               then, as the Spirit of God pointed out by the prophets
1465   IV, 20, 8  |            our being made subject to God, but it was still a future
1466   IV, 20, 8  |             Holy Spirit, should see [God], it necessarily behoved
1467   IV, 20, 8  |        things were announced, to see God, whom they intimated as
1468   IV, 20, 8  |           seen by men; in order that God, and the Son of God, and
1469   IV, 20, 8  |             that God, and the Son of God, and the Son, and the Father,
1470   IV, 20, 8  |          instructed in the things of God, that man might be disciplined
1471   IV, 20, 8  |           revealed in those who love God. For the prophets used not
1472   IV, 20, 8  |              therefore, did they see God, as also Esaias says, "I
1473   IV, 20, 8  |           out that man should behold God with his eyes, and hear
1474   IV, 20, 8  |             they also see the Son of God as a man conversant with
1475   IV, 20, 8  |             also Moses declared that God was indeed a consuming fire (
1476   IV, 20, 8  |             law, and threatened that God would bring upon them a
1477   IV, 20, 8  |            those who had the fear of God he said, "The LORD God is
1478   IV, 20, 8  |            of God he said, "The LORD God is merciful and gracious,
1479   IV, 20, 9  |            impossible for man to see God; and that, through the wisdom
1480   IV, 20, 9  |          that, through the wisdom of God, man shall see Him in the
1481   IV, 20, 10 |            behold the actual face of God, but [they saw] the dispensations
1482   IV, 20, 10 |            man should afterwards see God. As was also said to Elias: "
1483   IV, 20, 10 |               in which the spirit of God does, in the most gentle
1484   IV, 20, 10 |             saw the dispensations of God in part, but not actually
1485   IV, 20, 10 |            in part, but not actually God Himself. For when this man
1486   IV, 20, 10 |           man had seen the vision of God, and the cherubim, and their
1487   IV, 20, 10 |        visions] he had actually seen God, he added: "This was the
1488   IV, 20, 10 |             likeness of the glory of God."~11.
1489   IV, 20, 11 |           celestial visions, did see God; but if what they did see
1490   IV, 20, 11 |              said, "No man hath seen God at any time." But His Word,
1491   IV, 20, 11 |             said: "The only-begotten God, which is in the bosom of
1492   IV, 20, 11 |               was like to the Son of God." At another time [He is
1493   IV, 20, 11 |           come to pass: "No man sees God, and shall live"), and the
1494   IV, 20, 11 |             are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the
1495   IV, 20, 11 |           name is called The Word of God. And the armies of heaven
1496   IV, 20, 11 |           fierceness of the wrath of God Almighty. And He hath upon
1497   IV, 20, 11 |                Thus does the Word of God always preserve the outlines,
1498   IV, 20, 11 |             the things pertaining to God.~12.
1499   IV, 20, 12 |             of this stamp it will be God's good pleasure to take
1500   IV, 20, 12 |           the children of the living God." That which had been done