Anf-01 viii.iii.xiii Pg 2
The word disseminated among men. [St. Jas. i. 21.]
seeing what was related to it. But they who contradict themselves on the more important points appear not to have possessed the heavenly1945 1945 Literally, dimly seen at a distance.
wisdom, and the knowledge which cannot be spoken against. Whatever things were rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians. For next to God, we worship and love the Word who is from the unbegotten and ineffable God, since also He became man for our sakes, that becoming a partaker of our sufferings, He might also bring us healing. For all the writers were able to see realities darkly through the sowing of the implanted word that was in them. For the seed and imitation impacted according to capacity is one thing, and quite another is the thing itself, of which there is the participation and imitation according to the grace which is from Him.