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 1   Int,        1     |  Nicephorus,5 and I had myself the good fortune to discover a fragment
 2    II,       IX     |        those two sayings: "None is good save God," and "The good
 3    II,       IX     |           good save God," and "The good man out of the good treasure
 4    II,       IX     |            The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth
 5    II,       IX     |       bringeth forth that which is good."~ ~See how plainly here
 6    II,       IX     |         man when He says, "None is good save one, even God." And
 7    II,       IX     |          God, by saying, " None is good save one, even God; why
 8    II,       IX     |            why callest |35 thou me good?" If your desire is to pay
 9    II,       IX     |            he came near and said, "Good master." Christ faces the
10    II,       IX     |              Why dost thou call me good when thou thinkest me a
11    II,       IX     |           and yet addressing me as good; for among men there is
12    II,       IX     |        there is nothing inherently good, but in God alone. So according
13    II,       IX     |          at least I deny that I am good, since I am reckoned as
14    II,       IX     |      affinity to the nature of the Good, and wouldst have had no
15    II,       IX     |            secretly steal away the good that is absolute, and dost
16    II,       IX     |         unreasoning witness to the good that is relative,86 thou
17    II,       IX     |           have ever used the word 'good' without due thought. For
18    II,       IX     |            For even if I said 'The good man out of the good treasure
19    II,       IX     |            The good man out of the good treasure bringeth forth
20    II,       IX     |       bringeth forth that which is good,' I do not call the man
21    II,       IX     |              I do not call the man good absolutely, but relatively,
22    II,       IX     |          whenever he performs some good action through sharing in
23    II,       IX     |           sharing in that which is good. Take an illustration. The
24    II          (86) |                     3 " Literally, good by nature ( fu&sei ) and
25    II          (86) |           by nature ( fu&sei ) and good by position ( qe&sei ).~ ~
26    II,       IX     |          any one calls the Creator good, and also that which is
27    II,       IX     |            another. Hence a man is good,88 not as having this possession
28    II,       IX     |           from another. But God is good, not as having received
29    II,       IX     |        this from another, but as a good which is. absolute, and
30    II,       IX     |            with regard to what is "good." It will prevent you from
31    II,       IX     |        words by saying, "No one is good save one, even God." For
32    II,       IX     |        even God." For the absolute good, the inherent good, the
33    II,       IX     |        absolute good, the inherent good, the archetypal good, the
34    II,       IX     |      inherent good, the archetypal good, the invisible and unchangeable
35    II,       IX     |         invisible and unchangeable good, --- this, He declares,
36    II,       IX     |     underlies it. But the relative good, the good that is easily
37    II,       IX     |         But the relative good, the good that is easily altered,
38    II,       IX     |            called a fish or an egg good, by saying, "Ye know how
39    II,       IX     |       saying, "Ye know how to give good gifts to your children."~ ~
40    II,        X     |           moon's influence. Like a good historian, he recorded things
41    II,    XVIII     |          of His side has been made good by His side.~ ~This is true,
42    II,      XIX     |            to do away with what is good, should not do away with
43   III,       IX     |           as being associated with good cheer. And, indeed, He sipped
44   III,       XI     |         into the sea. He was doing good in each thing, and giving
45   III,      XII     |      poverty may make a man either good or bad.] But in any case
46   III,      XII     |          become rich. And yet with good cause He casts 140 the rich
47   III,      VII     |         woman ? She hath wrought a good work on me. The poor ye
48   III,     XXVI     |       dilemma. But even if it were good in itself to do so, what
49   III,   XXVIII     |           punished for the general good.~ ~The preaching of the
50   III,   XXXVII     |          of arms. Paul did similar good by being all things to all
51   III,   XXXVII     |         giving way on one point. A good doctor may forbid a certain
52   III,      XLI     |         the law came to reveal it. Good and bad could not be distinguished
53   III          (229)|          on the theory of a god of good and a god of evil, which
54    IV,        I     |            that it is into what is good that the world would change
55    IV,       II     |       things, and keeps the law of good order. So, even if He is
56    IV,     XVII     |            obtain it through their good works.~ ~The sayings were
57    IV,      XIX     |   Scriptures.~ ~Tell therefore, my good sir, to us who are following
58    IV,     XXIV     |            of events that has held good until now, whereby He ordained
59    IV,     XXIV     |          even though this may seem good to Him. Nor can God ever
60    IV,     XXIV     |           be able to sin, as being good by nature. If then He is
61    IV,     XXIV     |    prevented. But God is by nature good, and is not prevented from
62    IV,      XXX     |         should allow that which is good and its opposite to be plunged
63    IV,      XXX     |    overtake, and though they be of good racing ancestry, and of
64    IV,      XXX     |       showing no fulfilment of the good deeds of virtue, receives
65    IV,      XXX     |      stripped of the reward of the good, if it be not done in the
66     V               |            having believed through good works, he was well-pleasing
67     V               |         unless it grow by means of good works. And in like manner
68     V               |            the linking together of good deeds is a useless thing
69     V               |           how faith made preceding good deeds of virtue to be reckoned
70     V               |          even if these things were good in appearance and respected,
71     V               | experiences of this kind that were good, were reckoned unto Abraham
72     V               |            is like the lump, while good and spiritual works are
73     V               |     without the leaven of love and good works is neither useful
74     V               |           new mixture of faith and good works is pleasing to God,
75     V          (323)|          with the stress laid upon good works.~ ~If this conclusion