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Chapter
XV.—Pairs.
“Hence therefore God, teaching men with
respect to the truth of existing things, being Himself one, has
distinguished all principles into pairs and opposites,923
| 923 Literally,
“twofoldly and oppositely.” [On the doctrine of pairs
compare chap. 33, iii. 23, Recognitions, iii.
61.—R.] | Himself being one and sole God from the
beginning, having made heaven and earth, day and night, light and fire,
sun and moon, life and death. But man alone amongst these He made
self-controlling, having a fitness to be either righteous or
unrighteous. To him also he hath varied the figures of
combinations, placing before him small things first, and great ones
afterwards, such as the world and eternity. But the world that
now is, is temporary; that which shall be, is eternal. First is
ignorance, then knowledge. So also has He arranged the leaders of
prophecy. For, since the present world is female, as a mother
bringing forth the souls of her children, but the world to come is
male, as a father receiving his children from their mother,
therefore in this world there come a succession of prophets, as being
sons of the world to come, and having knowledge of men. And if
pious men had understood this mystery, they would never have gone
astray, but even now they should have known that Simon, who now
enthralls all men, is a fellow-worker of error and deceit. Now,
the doctrine of the prophetic rule is as follows.
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