Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Out of Nothing God Made Heaven and Earth.
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter VII.—Out of Nothing God
Made Heaven and Earth.
7. And whence and in what manner was this,
unless from Thee, from whom are all things, in so far as they are?
But by how much the farther from Thee, so much the more unlike unto
Thee; for it is not distance of place. Thou, therefore, O Lord, who
art not one thing in one place, and otherwise in another, but the
Self-same, and the Self-same, and the Self-same,1078
| 1078 See ix. sec. 11, above. | Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
Almighty, didst in the beginning,1079
| 1079 See p. 166, note, above. | which is of Thee, in Thy Wisdom,
which was born of Thy Substance, create something, and that out of
nothing.1080
| 1080 See p. 165, note 2, above. | For Thou
didst create heaven and earth, not out of Thyself, for then they
would be equal to Thine Only-begotten, and thereby even to Thee;1081
| 1081 In the beginning of sec. 10, book xi. of his De
Civ. Dei, he similarly argues that the world was, not like the
Son, “begotten of the simple good,” but “created.” See also
note 8, p. 76, above. | and in no
wise would it be right that anything should be equal to Thee which
was not of Thee. And aught else except Thee there was not whence
Thou mightest create these things, O God, One Trinity, and Trine
Unity; and, therefore, out of nothing didst Thou create heaven and
earth,—a great thing and a small,because Thou art Almighty and
Good, to make all things good, even the great heaven and the small
earth. Thou wast, and there was nought else from which Thou didst
create heaven and earth; two such things, one near unto Thee, the
other near to nothing,1082
| 1082 “Because at the first creation, it had no form
nor thing in it.”—W. W. | —one to which Thou shouldest be
superior, the other to which nothing should be
inferior.
E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
