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 1 II  |    appropriate fruits, and varying qualities. So, too, we conceive of
 2 XVII|           of the charm, but to the qualities and peculiarities of the
 3 XIX |    unqualified, acquiring whatever qualities the Creator wishes to invest
 4 XIX |       divests itself of its former qualities and assumes better ones
 5 XIX |         matter which underlies all qualities to change its qualities,
 6 XIX |            qualities to change its qualities, why should it be impossible
 7 XIX |       flesh of Jesus to change its qualities, and become such as it ought
 8 XIX |       realms, no longer having the qualities of fleshly weakness, and
 9 XIX |       weakness, and whatever other qualities Celsus called "pollutions"? ----
10 XX  |            blame them for the very qualities for which their own friends
11 XX  |            is the cause of so many qualities, and that we are indebted
12 XX  | understanding, and the other manly qualities, and having discovered various
13 XX  |       taken to represent the worst qualities, while there is no instance
14 XXIV|             then, if matter had no qualities, and the world was made
15 XXIV|         world was made by God, and qualities are in the world, God is
16 XXIV|            God is the Maker of the qualities. ~Just so. ~But I think
17 XXIV|         whether you think that the qualities of the world have not sprung
18 XXIV|       sprung from already existing qualities?  ~It seems so. ~And that
19 XXIV|          seems so. ~And that these qualities are quite distinct from
20 XXIV|            if God did not make the qualities out of existing qualities,
21 XXIV|          qualities out of existing qualities, and they have not come
22 XXIV|         that God can make not only qualities out of nothing, but also
23 XXIV|           things as substances, or qualities of substances? ~I think
24 XXIV|          think it is right to say, qualities of substances. ~But matter,
25 XXIV|            God is the Maker of the qualities, it follows that God will
26 XXIV|         God was the Creator of the qualities, and the qualities are evil,
27 XXIV|          of the qualities, and the qualities are evil, God will be the
28 XXIV|    substance whatsoever is without qualities; in fact the very affirmation
29 XXIV|            seems to me to have had qualities from all eternity; and if
30 XXIV|            on the contrary, we say qualities, we have recognised their
31 XXIV|             if both substances and qualities are already in existence,
32 XXIV|            were, but changed their qualities? ~6. I do not suppose there
33 XXIV|          there was a change of the qualities, and I maintain that in
34 XXIV|            created a change of its qualities, and I maintain that this
35 XXIV|           say that a change of the qualities was brought about by God,
36 XXIV|         think that things evil are qualities of the substances? ~I think
37 XXIV|          think so. ~And were these qualities themselves in matter from
38 XXIV|       beginning? ~I say that these qualities were eternally co-existent
39 XXIV|           produced a change of the qualities? ~Yes. That is what I say. ~
40 XXIV|             if the evil things are qualities of matter, and God changed
41 XXIV|        matter, and God changed its qualities for the better, we are bound
42 XXIV|            origin of evil. For the qualities did not remain what they
43 XXIV|        they were by nature. If the qualities were not bad at first, and
44 XXIV|      matter acquired its first bad qualities, God will be the cause of
45 XXIV|           evil, because He changed qualities which were not bad, so that
46 XXIV|            to have changed the bad qualities into better ones, but that
47 XXIV|            for His having left the qualities of bad things as they were?
48 XXIV|            been the cause of those qualities which He allowed to remain;