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XXXIII.
Inasmuch4853
| 4853 Harvey considers this fragment to be a
part of the work of Irenæus referred to by Photius under the title De
Universo, or de Substantiâ Mundi. It is to be found in Codex
3011 of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. | as certain men,
impelled by what considerations I know not, remove from God the half of
His creative power, by asserting that He is merely the cause of quality
resident in matter, and by maintaining that matter itself is uncreated,
come now let us put the question, What is at any time … is
immutable. Matter, then, is immutable. But if matter be immutable, and
the immutable suffers no change in regard to quality, it does not form
the substance of the world. For which reason it seems to them
superfluous, that God has annexed qualities to matter, since indeed
matter admits of no possible alteration, it being in itself an uncreated
thing. But further, if matter be uncreated, it has been made altogether
according to a certain
quality, and this immutable, so that
it cannot be receptive of more qualities, nor can it be the thing of
which the world is made. But if the world be not made from it, [this
theory] entirely excludes God from exercising power on the creation [of
the world].E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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