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| Chapter CXXIX.—That is confirmed from other passages of Scripture.
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Chapter CXXIX.—That is confirmed from
other passages of Scripture.
“And now I shall again recite the words which I
have spoken in proof of this point. When Scripture says, ‘The Lord
rained fire from the Lord out of heaven,’ the prophetic word
indicates that there were two in number: One upon the earth, who, it
says, descended to behold the cry of Sodom; Another in heaven, who also
is Lord of the Lord on earth, as He is Father and God; the cause of His
power and of His being Lord and God. Again, when the Scripture records
that God said in the beginning, ‘Behold, Adam has become like one
of Us,’2456
this phrase, ‘like
one of Us,’ is also indicative of number; and the words do not
admit of a figurative meaning, as the sophists endeavour to affix on
them, who are able neither to tell nor to understand the truth. And it is
written in the book of Wisdom: ‘If I should tell you daily events,
I would be mindful to enumerate them from the beginning. The Lord created
me the beginning of His ways for His works. From everlasting He
established me in the beginning, before He formed the earth, and before
He made the depths, and before the springs of waters came forth, before
the mountains were settled; He begets me before all the hills.’
”2457
When I repeated these words, I added:
“You perceive, my hearers, if you bestow attention, that the
Scripture has declared that this Offspring was begotten by the Father
before all things created; and that which is begotten is numerically
distinct from that which begets, any one will admit.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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