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 1 Pre|       in the light of truth. It was their wish also, that I
 2 Pre|         practical use, the more was what they enjoined on me
 3 Pre|        zeal; and reluctant as I was because of the difficulty
 4 Pre|     affection that, so far as I was able, I have prosecuted
 5 Pre|   within the limits they set.~I was led to this undertaking
 6 Pre|        of those whose request I was striving to fulfil. But
 7 6  |         CHAPTER VI.~This Nature was not brought into existence
 8 6  |         assist it to be what it was not before.~What is to be
 9 6  |         through which it exists was a great good, since it was
10 6  |      was a great good, since it was the cause of good. But no
11 6  |    conceivable that this Nature was preceded by any being, through
12 6  |  existence from any matter, and was not aided in being brought
13 6  |        itself to become what it was not before, unless, haply,
14 7  |         them all, or because it was the material of all. For,
15 7  |     except the supreme Essence, was created by that supreme
16 8  |        Accordingly, if anything was created from nothing, this
17 8  |      nothing, this very nothing was the cause of what was created
18 8  |   nothing was the cause of what was created from it. But how
19 8  |       whatever has been created was created from something.~
20 8  |      chapter. Hence, since what was nothing will thus be something,
21 8  |        be something, that which was something in the highest
22 8  |         which they were created was nothing. Hence, if that
23 8  |    statement that any substance was created from nothing be
24 8  |         at all, as to whence it was created, the answer, "from
25 8  |        given; that is, it never was created. But this answer
26 8  |        created from nothing, it was created from nothing itself (
27 8  |      when we understand that it was indeed created, but that
28 8  |       is not anything whence it was created. Apparently it is
29 8  |       by the creative Substance was created from nothing, in
30 8  |       sickness; that is, he who was poor before, is rich now,
31 8  |      before, is rich now, as he was not before; and he who was
32 8  |      was not before; and he who was ill before, is well now,
33 8  |      before, is well now, as he was not before.~In this way,
34 8  |  nothing"; that is, the man who was before reputed as nothing
35 9  |     then, that before the world was created, it was in the thought
36 9  |       the world was created, it was in the thought of the supreme
37 9  |      not what they now are, nor was there anything whence they
38 17 |       cogency of the truth that was shown above refutes and
39 18 |    began to be true, or when it was not true, namely, that something
40 18 |          namely, that something was destined to be; or when
41 18 |         end; before it began it was true that truth did not
42 19 |     this statement, "that there was before it a time when nothing
43 19 |     brought into existence what was nothing, should be reduced
44 19 |        the supreme Being, there was a time when nothing was.
45 19 |         was a time when nothing was. But another understanding
46 19 |        be understood that there was any time when that Being
47 19 |        before that Being, there was not anything. The same sort
48 21 |        is properly said that it was and is and will be. Its
49 21 |     proposition be valid, which was proved with clear and logical
50 21 |    present, if it truly is? But was means past, and will be
51 21 |      Therefore that Being never was, nor will be. Hence, it
52 22 |        or time.~Nor, because it was, or is, or shall be, has
53 24 |       alone, as we have proved, was not created, but is the
54 28 |         any alteration, that it was or will be, but simply that
55 28 |        anything which it either was not at any time, or will
56 28 |       it fail to be now what it was, or will be, at any time;
57 29 |   through himself, and whatever was created by him was created
58 29 |     whatever was created by him was created through that expression,
59 29 |         for every created being was created through that expression;
60 57 |      supreme Being, which alone was created by none, and created
61 61 |       Son of some being? For it was understood, that the Father
62 61 |     understood, that the Father was memory, the Son intelligence,
63 68 |   LXVIII.~The rational creature was created in order that it
64 68 |      that the rational creature was created for this purpose,
65 69 |         We infer, then, that it was created for this end, that
66 69 |     unless it lives forever. It was so created, then, that it
67 69 |         to do that for which it was created.~Hence, it is most
68 70 |         For, if he gave to what was nothing, a rational being,
69 71 |         to the end for which it was created. But reason in no
70 71 |         condemned to be what it was before all its guilt.~For,
71 71 | despising that end for which it was created, dies so as to feel
72 72 |        for the love of which it was created, it must be immortal.
73 73 |       of that good for which it was created, we ought most assuredly