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501 XXII       |            oracles of the wisdom of God, concerning which it is
502 XXII       |            than all rulers, to whom God said, as the prophets foretold
503 XXII       |           on Him and on His Father, God over All.534~~~~~~
504 XXIII      |             Of Fate, and how though God foreknows the conduct of
505 XXIII(535) |         receiving commandments from God. ~
506 XXIII      |           we preach; an end also of God's threats of punishment
507 XXIII      |           establish the churches of God through Christ, of no avail;
508 XXIII      |         everything, not because the God and Father of All gave Him
509 XXIII      |    believers are said to believe in God because they are compelled
510 XXIII      |           opponents to tell us what God meant by so making the world,
511 XXIII      |          the whole heavens, because God so ordered the universe,
512 XXIII      |            all guilt, but they make God the cause of all that is
513 XXIII      |             they may seem to defend God's character, shall say that
514 XXIII      |           that there is a different God, the good God,536Who has
515 XXIII      |             different God, the good God,536Who has no control of
516 XXIII      |          the doctrine of the higher God they have imagined; but
517 XXIII      |           is unreasonable to expect God to give us this or that.
518 XXIII      |           Who had the book written, God Himself, if we may so speak.
519 XXIII      |             investigation show that God did not produce the treachery
520 XXIII      |         deep into the discussion of God's universal foreknowledge,
521 XXIII      |         things whereon, as it were, God stamps the proofs of His
522 XXIII      |          Who did foreknow. ~4. That God knows long before every
523 XXIII      |         from the very conception of God clear to him who understands
524 XXIII      |          and, according to Susanna, God knows all things before
525 XXIII      |         thus speaks, "O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets,
526 XXIII      |         behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word
527 XXIII      |           the sign which the man of God had given by the Word of
528 XXIII      |          thee by thy name, even the God of Israel. For Jacob my
529 XXIII      |             Cyrus was a benefactor, God gave him, though he was
530 XXIII      |             of the foreknowledge of God. But the Saviour Himself
531 XXIII      |   demonstrated the foreknowledge of God, if we are to explain how
532 XXIII      |        confront us ---- (α) How, if God knows from all eternity
533 XXIII      |             men; (δ) why it is that God has made the signs for the
534 XXIII      |             be at all maintained if God foreknows the future, ventured
535 XXIII      |             a glorious attribute of God, but one destructive of
536 XXIII      |          vice. They tell us that if God from everlasting knows that
537 XXIII      |             and if the knowledge of God be infallible, and if he
538 XXIII      |       conduct to be other than what God knew it would be. But if
539 XXIII      |          say that consistently with God's foreknowledge our Free
540 XXIII      |            will be as follows: When God planned the creation of
541 XXIII      |             we must understand that God having foreseen what every
542 XXIII      |             occurrences (for though God knows before that a man
543 XXIII      |        future event is the cause of God's peculiar knowledge concerning
544 XXIII      |         assent to this as true; for God cannot possibly lie; and
545 XXIII      |           Peter, it is possible for God to think of Judas continuing
546 XXIII      |         traitor, it is possible for God to contemplate his becoming
547 XXIII      |             proves to be a traitor, God by His foreknowledge of
548 XXIII      |            be a traitor; but though God knows this, it might have
549 XXIII      |     otherwise; and the knowledge of God would say, "It is possible
550 XXIII      |            he will do this one." If God were to say, "It is not
551 XXIII      |           that the foreknowledge of God really does not necessitate
552 XXIII      |             many parts of Scripture God commands the Prophets to
553 XXIII      |        their sins. Thus in Jeremiah God says, "It may be they will
554 XXIII      |          hearken and repent." 553If God thus speaks, it is not because
555 XXIII      |         their goodness foreknown to God, may by striving .and struggling
556 XXIII      |             living a virtuous life. God will not have His foreknowledge
557 XXIII      |          hindrance. Thus it is that God Who ordereth all things
558 XXIII      |             since we have said that God blinds our eyes with regard
559 XXIII      |           we are to understand that God has made the same man blind
560 XXIII      |           that the foreknowledge of God does not necessitate what
561 XXIII      |               Hold not thy peace, O God, at my praise; for the mouth
562 XXIII      |        wisdom, Celsus, said: "Being God He foretold, and what was
563 XXIII      |           all, but from the mind of God through some prophetic utterance.
564 XXIII      |      already shown that the fact of God's knowing the future conduct
565 XXIII      |         neither do the signs, which God appointed to be indicative,
566 XXIII      |             being as it were one of God's books, may contain the
567 XXIII      |           skill but by the power of God; as Paul says, "I heard
568 XXIII      |            reveals them clearly, as God wills, announcing the Divine
569 XXIII      |            passages, why it is that God has made these signs in
570 XXIII      |           if we believe the mind of God to be great enough to embrace
571 XXIII      |     consistent with the eternity of God's understanding, which transcends
572 XXIII      |        experience grasp this truth, God created in the heavens beings
573 XXIII      |             to read the signs which God gives as if they were written
574 XXIII      |           it is not surprising that God should create some one for
575 XXIII(576) |                      2 "The fire of God." See 2 Esd. iv. 1, 36,
576 XXIII      |             of showing the power of God and publishing abroad His
577 XXIII      |       manifestation of the power of God there is in the heavenly
578 XXIII      |           heavens, a book worthy of God. And, secondly, I conjecture
579 XXIII      |      commandments and ordinances of God. It is indeed possible that
580 XXIII      |             Angels and ministers of God in order that they may rejoice
581 XXIII      |         reminded by the writings of God (in the heavens). Just as
582 XXIII      |       because they have learnt that God foreknows that some one
583 XXIII      |             opposing Powers, though God foreknows the wickedness
584 XXIII      |           follow 580the commands of God's written law, they produce
585 XXIII      |             or haphazard, they read God's book; and thus they do
586 XXIII      |           things as are pleasing to God, the choice is disciplined;
587 XXIV       |            be admitted, either that God is separated from matter,
588 XXIV       |             one would maintain that God is united to matter, this
589 XXIV       |          parts, has been created by God. Similarly, of necessity,
590 XXIV       |         Similarly, of necessity, if God is not separated from matter,
591 XXIV       |            if any one will say that God is separated from matter,
592 XXIV       |     uncreated substances, viz. that God is neither separated from
593 XXIV       |             in matter, or matter in God, let me tell him, and it
594 XXIV       |          say matter is the place of God, we must of necessity affirm
595 XXIV       |         follows that we must affirm God to be in the lower forms
596 XXIV       |             ever was unordered, and God of His own free choice ordered
597 XXIV       |  development, there was a time when God had no order of His own,592
598 XXIV       |            might fairly ask whether God filled matter, or was in
599 XXIV       |             one prefers to say that God was in a part of matter,
600 XXIV       |            part of matter, he makes God infinitely smaller than
601 XXIV       |       really contained the whole of God. If he says that God is
602 XXIV       |             of God. If he says that God is in all matter and pervades
603 XXIV       |         matter, let him tell us how God worked on matter. Either
604 XXIV       |             was some contraction of God before He worked on that
605 XXIV       |          maintain that matter is in God, we must similarly inquire
606 XXIV       |      whether we are to suppose that God stood apart from Himself,
607 XXIV       |             are bound to admit that God is divisible; if we say
608 XXIV       |            we say that matter is in God as water is in earth, and
609 XXIV       |             of necessity allow that God was the place of disorder
610 XXIV       |          may not have to admit that God is the Author of evil, and
611 XXIV       |        because matter is subject to God, we cannot possibly deny
612 XXIV       |          matter is co-existent with God, and that out of it He created
613 XXIV       |           and the world was made by God, and qualities are in the
614 XXIV       |         qualities are in the world, God is the Maker of the qualities. ~
615 XXIV       |                Yes. ~Well, then, if God did not make the qualities
616 XXIV       |   conclusion that they were made by God out of nothing. And this
617 XXIV       |           that anything was made by God out of nothing. Let us look
618 XXIV       |          not much rather admit that God can make not only qualities
619 XXIV       |    unqualified, and you affirm that God is the Maker of the qualities,
620 XXIV       |          qualities, it follows that God will also be the Creator
621 XXIV       |       cannot even thus avoid making God the cause of evil, it seems
622 XXIV       |         matter was unqualified, and God was the Creator of the qualities,
623 XXIV       |             the qualities are evil, God will be the Author of evil.
624 XXIV       |     effluence of matter, it is that God may not be the cause of
625 XXIV       |            be so, what is there for God to create? If we say substances,
626 XXIV       |         seems to me useless to call God a Creator. But that I may
627 XXIV       |          what sense do you say that God was a "Creator"? 595Is it
628 XXIV       |             that in respect of them God is a Creator. For just as
629 XXIV       |        changed; so, it seems to me, God, while the substance remained
630 XXIV       |         justifies us in saying that God made the world. ~Well, then,
631 XXIV       |      qualities was brought about by God, I wish you would briefly
632 XXIV       |             But do you not say that God produced a change of the
633 XXIV       |            qualities of matter, and God changed its qualities for
634 XXIV       |            through the change which God made, matter acquired its
635 XXIV       |            its first bad qualities, God will be the cause of evil,
636 XXIV       |       became bad; or do you suppose God not to have changed the
637 XXIV       |   indifferent ones, were changed by God for the sake of putting
638 XXIV       |             in evil; but as soon as God made him a man, he became
639 XXIV       |  approaching evil; and what you say God intended for the benefit
640 XXIV       |            was not stopped was that God could not remove it, you
641 XXIV       |            it, you will affirm that God is impotent; and His impotence
642 XXIV       |          that evil is mightier than God, inasmuch as it is strong
643 XXIV       |             statement to make about God. These things, which according
644 XXIV       |            you are able to overcome God, must surely be the true
645 XXIV       |         gods, that is to say, if by God we mean Omnipotence.  ~8.
646 XXIV       |            things uncreated. For if God was uncreated, and the simple
647 XXV        |        separated unto the gospel of God." ~1. The third point to
648 XXV        |        separated unto the Gospel of God";599and in the Epistle to
649 XXV        |            was the good pleasure of God, who separated me even from
650 XXV        |        through the foreknowledge of God is the cause of the events
651 XXV        |           injustice brought against God's decree, be able to defend
652 XXV        |        separated unto the Gospel of God, Paul the servant of Jesus
653 XXV        |         know that to them that love God all things work together
654 XXV        |          order of these statements. God first calls, and then justifies,
655 XXV        |            of his Son." 605So then, God first surveyed the long
656 XXV        |          the image of the invisible God,606and it is His image which
657 XXV        |             the image of the Son of God; and we think that this
658 XXV        |               soul which the Son of God assumed, and which for its
659 XXV        |           the image of the image of God. And it was to this, which
660 XXV        |             the image of the Son of God, that God foreordained those
661 XXV        |             of the Son of God, that God foreordained those to be
662 XXV        |           that the foreknowledge of God is the cause of future events;
663 XXV(607)   |              3 According to Origen, God created a finite number
664 XXV        |      objects, and asks whether what God foreknows might possibly
665 XXV        |         know that to them that love God all things work together
666 XXV        |           calling by the purpose of God, than those who love Him?
667 XXV        |          for good to them that love God"; for Paul all but said
668 XXV        |        reason is that they who love God are worthy of their working
669 XXV        |           is indeed a reality, will God, when He considers the chain
670 XXV        |          omniscience and majesty of God. But if they will admit
671 XXV        |        Separated unto the gospel of God," 614and "He that separated
672 XXV        |         under these conditions that God separated him from his mother'
673 XXV        |             from his mother's womb: God saw the cause of the just
674 XXV        |             moved with fear towards God so that he might not be
675 XXV        |        separated unto the Gospel of God, as it was foreknown that
676 XXV        |        separated unto the Gospel of God not because his nature was
677 XXV        |            it was a digression; so, God willing, it shall be discussed
678 XXVI       |       marvellous name, The Lord thy God; then The Lord thy God will
679 XXVI       |          thy God; then The Lord thy God will make thy plagues wonderful,
680 XXVI       |             land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and ye observe
681 XXVI       |         this day, that the Lord thy God shall set thee on high above
682 XXVI       |           the voice of the Lord thy God.633Blessed shalt thou be
683 XXVI       |          for those who follow after God.  ~5. And is it not foolish
684 XXVI       |          for good to those who love God, to those who are the called
685 XXVI       |        holiness, piety, and fear of God which constitute the upright
686 XXVI       |          and have not the wisdom of God, he is accounted but a thing
687 XXVI       |            that is Divine so far as God is with it. Anyway, perhaps
688 XXVI       |          far less than the power of God in the acquisition of the
689 XXVI       |            him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;659not
690 XXVI       |      showeth mercy;659not as though God showeth mercy without our
691 XXVI       |        comparison with the mercy of God; and therefore, as is right
692 XXVI       |       result rather to the mercy of God than to human willing and
693 XXVI       |         receive good at the hand of God, shall wo not endure evil? " 661
694 XXVI       |         receive good at the hand of God, shall we not endure evil?"
695 XXVII      |             that things unworthy of God are spoken of God, and it
696 XXVII      |       unworthy of God are spoken of God, and it is unworthy of God
697 XXVII      |          God, and it is unworthy of God to bring about the hardening
698 XXVII      |           ask, Is it not absurd for God to influence any one to
699 XXVII      |         would be a clear proof that God did not wish Pharaoh to
700 XXVII      |    convinced that there is no other God but the Creator,665think
701 XXVII      |           the Creator,665think that God arbitrarily, as it were,
702 XXVII      |             have mercy shown him by God, and another be hardened
703 XXVII      |            alleging that there is a God other than the Creator,
704 XXVII      |           conception of a righteous God, concede the point that
705 XXVII      |            He is just, how can that God be just Who was the cause
706 XXVII      |            of the purpose of a just God, I fail to understand how,
707 XXVII      |           of Pharaoh's heart a just God. We must therefore press
708 XXVII      |           either to show how a just God hardens, or to pluck up
709 XXVII      |             He hardens, is a wicked God. If they can find but scanty
710 XXVII      |         scanty proofs that the just God is capable of hardening
711 XXVII      |            own conception of a just God, because they think they
712 XXVII      |        perdition, to be hardened by God so that he should not let
713 XXVII      |         been hardened. And what did God do to control his reason
714 XXVII      |            to bad; further, whether God in blaming Pharaoh blames
715 XXVII      |       surely does not belong to one God, and the having mercy to
716 XXVII      |          are attributed to the same God. Either, then, they who
717 XXVII      |       opponents to invent any other god than (as they allow Him
718 XXVII      |           allow Him to be) the good God, Who not only hath mercy
719 XXVII      |             in their conceptions of God, nor in their doctrines
720 XXVII      |           things eternal, come from God the Creator, Who is to be
721 XXVII      |          the good and just and wise God; and in handling the Scriptures
722 XXVII      |           steadily in view, begging God our Saviour to show us all
723 XXVII      |            a good and just and wise God, for we suppose that the
724 XXVII      |            Pharaoh." 671The Word of God is a physician of the soul,
725 XXVII      |        adultery." 672It may be that God leaves to themselves the
726 XXVII      |            into the same evils. The God who designed them knows
727 XXVII      |            and similar diseases. So God also, I think, deals with
728 XXVII      |             so it is, I think, when God says, "I will harden the
729 XXVII      |      heareth them as the oracles of God, observing the dignity of
730 XXVII      |         even herein the goodness of God;674for the people were through
731 XXVII      |           and his son teaches that "God scourgeth every son whom
732 XXVII      |         correction. And this is why God threatens, that if the sins
733 XXVII      |         there are sinners with whom God is not furious; if I may
734 XXVII      |   punishment for sins is a token of God's great goodness, I would
735 XXVII      |         David, as it were imitating God, and having due regard to
736 XXVII      |   punishment, things that come from God, are never inflicted to
737 XXVII      |      severest terms we can apply to God, fury and anger, are called
738 XXVII      |             not need rebuke through God's fury, and chastening through
739 XXVII      |              and chastening through God's anger, for some there
740 XXVII      |             who would be rebuked in God's fury, and chastened in
741 XXVII      |            men, the Son of the good God would not have said this.
742 XXVII      |           traced to the goodness of God. For the present let the
743 XXVII      |          any one with due regard to God's glory should discover
744 XXVII      |      suffering and inflammation: so God through His healing art
745 XXVII      |           the way that the Lord thy God hath led thee these forty
746 XXVII      |         live." 693Observe here that God humbles and tries, in order
747 XXVII      |         even before his trials, but God would have him show his
748 XXVII      |           so, it may be urged, what God in His goodness does, having
749 XXVII      |        knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
750 XXVII      |           the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every
751 XXVII      |          the Romans, says, "What if God, willing to show his wrath,
752 XXVII      |            if the long-suffering of God having endured the vessels
753 XXVII      |             is the action of a just God, and suppose, according
754 XXVII      |       confess that He must be a bad God. Then, again, they will
755 XXVII      |             threats were uttered by God through the mouth of Moses
756 XXVII      |         there was no truth in them, God according to them is neither
757 XXVII      |            their own showing is not God at all; but if the words
758 XXVII      |          have them consider whether God does not blame Pharaoh as
759 XXVII      |           it proves the goodness of God, and disproves their tenet
760 XXVII      |            it is not the purpose of God's servant to write mere
761 XXVII      |            and their cry went up to God not because of the clay,
762 XXVII      |            the service.709Wherefore God also heard their groans,
763 Index      |         Fate, 173 f.~Foreknowledge (God's), 176, etc.; medical and
764 Index      |          ibid.; the obvious in, 26; God caused it to be written,
765 Index      |            meaning, 28; pervaded by God's fulness, 28; full of meanings,
766 Index      |            harmonious instrument of God, 42; inconsequence and abruptness,
767 Index      |           the image of the image of God, 210; why He shunned danger,
768 Index      |          124; have they thoughts of God?, 125; alleged sacred assemblies,
769 Index      |          receptive of every quality God desires, 73; not uncreated
770 Index      |     application of heathen names to God, 81 f.; the awe of Christians,
771 Index      |     hardening of his heart, 224 f.; God's mercy towards, 229; not
772 Index      |            the image of the Supreme God, 123.~Recognitions of Clement,