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| The Absolute God Entirely Incomprehensible by Man.
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Chapter X.—The Absolute
God Entirely Incomprehensible by Man.
“For instance, then, what did you say in the
beginning? If the wicked one has been begotten of God, being of
the same substance as He, then God is wicked. But when I showed
you, from the example which you yourself adduced, that wicked beings
come from good, and good from wicked, you did not admit the argument,
for you said that the example was a human one. Wherefore I now do
not admit that the term ‘being begotten’1426
| 1426 The text is corrupt
here. Literally it is, “I do not admit that God had been
begotten.” | can be used with reference to God; for it
is characteristic of man, and not of God, to beget. Not only so;
but God cannot be good or evil, just or unjust. Nor indeed can He
have intelligence, or life, or any of the other attributes which can
exist in man; for all these are peculiar to man. And if we must
not, in our investigations in regard to God, give Him the good
attributes which belong to man, it is not possible for us to have any
thought or make any statement in regard to God; but all we can do is to
investigate One point alone,—namely, what is His will which He
has Himself allowed us to apprehend, in order that, being judged, we
might be without excuse in regard to those laws which we have not
observed, though we knew them.”
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