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LV.—Simon’s Objections Turned Against Himself.
Peter answered: “O Simon, they are
wont to conceive such absurdities against God who do not read the law
with the instruction of masters, but account themselves teachers, and
think that they can understand the law, though he has not explained it
to them who has learned of the Master.665
| 665 [The attitude of
the Apostle Peter toward the Old Testament is differently represented
in the Homilies, where false views are admitted to exist in the
Scriptures. Comp. Homilies II. 38, 40, 41, 51, III. 4, 5,
etc.—R.] | Nevertheless now, that we also may
seem to follow the book of the law according to your apprehension of
it; inasmuch as you say that the creator of the world is shown to be
both impotent and evil, how is it that you do not see that that power
of yours, which you say is superior to all, fails and lies under the
very same charges? For the very same thing may be said of it,
that it is either powerless, since it does not correct those things
which here are done amiss; or if it can and will not, it is evil; or if
it neither can nor will, then it is both impotent and imperfect.
Whence that new power of yours is not only found liable to a similar
charge, but even to a worse one, if, in addition to all these things,
it is believed to be, when it is not. For He who created the
world, His existence is manifest by His very operation in creating the
world, as you yourself also confess. But this power which you say
that you alone know, affords no indication of itself, by which we might
perceive, at least, that it is, and subsists.”
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