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 1 4 |        who distinguish God from matter, and teach that matter is
 2 4 |     from matter, and teach that matter is one thing and God another,
 3 4 |         and reason alone, while matter is created and perishable),
 4 5 |         by the understanding as matter of certain knowledge, he
 5 6 |      and that He is superior to matter. Lysis and Opsimus thus
 6 6 |   employ to suit the changes of matter, which they say is permeated
 7 6 |        fervid part (to zeon) of matter, and Hera in respect of
 8 6 |         that particular part of matter which He pervades.~
 9 7 |  conclusion respecting God, and matter, and forms, and the world.
10 15| CHRISTIANS DISTINGUISH GOD FROM MATTER.~ But grant that they acknowledge
11 15|      cannot distinguish between matter and God, or see how great
12 15|     them, pray to idols made of matter, are we therefore, who do
13 15|     worship images? If, indeed, matter and God are the same, two
14 15|        the potter and the clay (matter being the clay, and the
15 15|        Framer of the world, and matter, which is subservient to
16 15|     without art, so neither did matter, which is capable of taking
17 15|       the vessels: even so with matter and God --the glory and
18 15|         belongs of right not to matter, but to God, the Framer
19 15|       but to God, the Framer of matter. So that, if we were to
20 15|     regard the various forms of matter as gods, we should seem
21 16|         they term it), passible matter; or, if any one apprehends
22 16|       and Lord. I do not ask of matter what it has not to give,
23 16|        still have the nature of matter. And to this view Plato
24 17|      but earth, and stones, and matter, and curious art.~
25 19|  passive and changeable, namely matter, it is nevertheless impossible
26 19|        are the gods superior to matter, since they derive their
27 19|       be constituted? Moreover, matter requires an artificer, and
28 19|      and the artificer requires matter. For how could figures be
29 19|         figures be made without matter or an artificer? Neither,
30 19|    again, is it reasonable that matter should be older than God;
31 20|     those that are derived from matter), they are not gods. How,
32 22|          nor Aidoneus; for from matter separated into parts by
33 22|      fluctuating and changeable matter on an equality with the
34 22|         as there are changes of matter, and say that the Spirit
35 22|   Spirit of God, which pervades matter, obtains according to its
36 22| diversity of names the forms of matter will become the body of
37 22|      the variation according to matter is allied to corruption,
38 22|         down about the forms of matter, they miss to find the God
39 22|         away among the forms of matter, and rooted to the earth,
40 24|    demons, others that they are matter, and others that they once
41 24|     distinction between God and matter, and the natures of the
42 24|         exercise dominion about matter, and by means of it, and
43 24|       the spirit which is about matter, who was created by God;
44 24|   entrusted with the control of matter and the forms of matter,
45 24|         matter and the forms of matter, is opposed. For this is
46 24|     them: namely, this ruler of matter and its various forms, and
47 24|      according to the prince of matter,--~"We know we oft speak
48 25|     indulged. But the prince of matter, as may be seen merely from
49 25| accordance with the tendency of matter on the one hand, and of
50 26|         is it the nature of the matter itself? But the matter is
51 26|      the matter itself? But the matter is brass. And what can brass
52 27|     time: some they derive from matter, and some they fashion and
53 27|      the demons who hover about matter, greedy of sacrificial odours
54 28|       in connection with such a matter."~
55 36|        topics irrelevant to the matter in hand, either by speaking