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Chapter X.—That Nothing Arose
Save by the Gift of God.
11. Happy creature, which, though in itself it
was other than Thou, hath known no other state than that as soon as
it was made, it was, without any interval of time, by Thy Gift,
which is borne over everything mutable, raised up by that calling
whereby Thou saidst, “Let there be light, and there was light.”
Whereas in us there is a difference of times, in that we were
darkness, and are made light;1201
but of that it is only said what
it would have been had it not been enlightened. And this is so
spoken as if it had been fleeting and darksome before; that so the
cause whereby it was made to be otherwise might appear,—that is
to say, being turned to the unfailing Light it might become light.
Let him who is able understand this; and let him who is not,1202
| 1202 Et qui non potest, which words, however,
some mss. omit, reading, Qui potest
intelligat; a te petat. | ask of
Thee. Why should he trouble me, as if I could enlighten any “man
that cometh into the world?”1203
| 1203 John i. 9;
see p. 76, note 2, and p. 181, note 2, above. |
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