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Chapter
XXXIX.—Defects Ascribed to God.
“Therefore also Adam, being made at first
after his likeness, is created blind, and is said not to have knowledge
of good or evil, and is found a transgressor, and is driven out of
paradise, and is punished with death. In like manner also, he who
made him, because he sees not in all places, says with reference to the
overthrow of Sodom, ‘Come, and let us go down, and see whether
they do according to their cry which comes to me; or if not, that I may
know.’980
Thus he
shows himself ignorant. And in his saying respecting Adam,
‘Let us drive him out, lest he put forth his hand and touch the
tree of life, and eat, and live for ever;’981
in saying Lest he
is ignorant; and in driving him out lest he should eat and live for
ever, he is also envious. And whereas it is written that
‘God repented that he had made man,’982
this implies both repentance and
ignorance. For this reflection is a view by which one, through
ignorance, wishes to inquire into the result of the things which he
wills, or it is the act of one repenting on account of the event not
being according to his expectation. And whereas it is written,
‘And the Lord smelled a scent of sweetness,’983
it is the part of one in need; and his
being pleased with the fat of flesh is the part of one who is not
good. But his tempting, as it is written, ‘And God did
tempt Abraham,’984
| 984 Gen. xxii. 1. [These objections from the
anthropomorphism of the Jewish Scriptures are not found in the
Recognitions.—R.] | is the part of
one who is wicked, and who is ignorant of the issue of the
experiment.”
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