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| 4810 We owe this fragment also to Maximus, who quoted it from
the same work, de Fide, written by Irenæus to Demetrius, a deacon
of Vienne. This and the last fragment were first printed by Feuardentius,
who obtained them from Faber; no reference, however, being given as to
the source from whence the Latin version was derived. The Greek of the
Fragment vi. is not extant. | God is vast, and the Architect of
the world, and omnipotent, He created things that reach to immensity both
by the Architect of the world and by an omnipotent will, and with a new
effect, potently and efficaciously, in order that the entire fulness of
those things which have been produced might come into being, although
they had no previous existence—that is, whatever does not fall
under [our] observation, and also what lies before our eyes. And so does
He contain all things in particular, and leads them on to their own
proper result, on account of which they were called into being and
produced, in no way changed into anything else than what it (the end) had
originally been by nature. For this is the property of the working of
God, not merely to proceed to the infinitude of the understanding, or
even to overpass [our] powers of mind, reason and speech, time and place,
and every age; but also to go beyond substance, and fulness or
perfection.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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