⁷⁸²⁵ Conditus. [See Theophilus To Autolycus, cap. x. note 1, p. 98, Vol. II. of this series. Also Ibid. p. 103, note 5. On the whole subject, Bp. Bull, Defensio Fid. Nicænæ. Vol. V. pp. 585–592.]

by Him first to devise and think out all things under the name of Wisdom—“The Lord created or formed⁷⁸²⁶

⁷⁸²⁶ Condidit.

me as the beginning of His ways;”⁷⁸²⁷

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Anf-03 v.ix.xii Pg 6
Gen. i. 3.

Immediately there appears the Word, “that true light, which lighteth man on his coming into the world,”⁷⁸⁹⁸

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Anf-03 v.iv.iii.iv Pg 8
Gen. i.

not as if He were ignorant of the good until He saw it; but because it was good, He therefore saw it, and honoured it, and set His seal upon it; and consummated²⁷⁴⁵

²⁷⁴⁵ Dispungens, i.e., examinans et probans et ita quasi consummans (Oehler).

the goodness of His works by His vouchsafing to them that contemplation. Thus God blessed what He made good, in order that He might commend Himself to you as whole and perfect, good both in word and act.²⁷⁴⁶

²⁷⁴⁶ This twofold virtue is very tersely expressed: “Sic et benedicebat quæ benefaciebat.”

As yet the Word knew no malediction, because He was a stranger to malefaction.²⁷⁴⁷

²⁷⁴⁷ This, the translator fears, is only a clumsy way of representing the terseness of our author’s “maledicere” and “malefacere.”

We shall see what reasons required this also of God. Meanwhile the world consisted of all things good, plainly foreshowing how much good was preparing for him for whom all this was provided. Who indeed was so worthy of dwelling amongst the works of God, as he who was His own image and likeness? That image was wrought out by a goodness even more operative than its wont,²⁷⁴⁸

²⁷⁴⁸ Bonitas et quidem operantior.

with no imperious word, but with friendly hand preceded by an almost affable²⁷⁴⁹

²⁷⁴⁹ Blandiente.

utterance: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”²⁷⁵⁰

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Anf-03 v.ix.xii Pg 9
Gen. i. 6, 7.

and God also said, “Let there be lights (in the firmament); and so God made a greater and a lesser light.”⁷⁹⁰¹

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Anf-03 v.v.xxvi Pg 6
Gen. i. 7.

and called the firmament heaven,⁶³⁷⁰

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Anf-03 v.iv.iii.iv Pg 8
Gen. i.

not as if He were ignorant of the good until He saw it; but because it was good, He therefore saw it, and honoured it, and set His seal upon it; and consummated²⁷⁴⁵

²⁷⁴⁵ Dispungens, i.e., examinans et probans et ita quasi consummans (Oehler).

the goodness of His works by His vouchsafing to them that contemplation. Thus God blessed what He made good, in order that He might commend Himself to you as whole and perfect, good both in word and act.²⁷⁴⁶

²⁷⁴⁶ This twofold virtue is very tersely expressed: “Sic et benedicebat quæ benefaciebat.”

As yet the Word knew no malediction, because He was a stranger to malefaction.²⁷⁴⁷

²⁷⁴⁷ This, the translator fears, is only a clumsy way of representing the terseness of our author’s “maledicere” and “malefacere.”

We shall see what reasons required this also of God. Meanwhile the world consisted of all things good, plainly foreshowing how much good was preparing for him for whom all this was provided. Who indeed was so worthy of dwelling amongst the works of God, as he who was His own image and likeness? That image was wrought out by a goodness even more operative than its wont,²⁷⁴⁸

²⁷⁴⁸ Bonitas et quidem operantior.

with no imperious word, but with friendly hand preceded by an almost affable²⁷⁴⁹

²⁷⁴⁹ Blandiente.

utterance: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”²⁷⁵⁰

²⁷⁵⁰

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Anf-03 v.v.xxix Pg 18
Gen. i. 9.

“Appear,” says He, not “be made.” It had been already made, only in its invisible condition it was then waiting⁶⁴¹⁵

⁶⁴¹⁵ Sustinebat: i.e. expectabat (Oehler).

to appear. “Dry,” because it was about to become such by its severance from the moisture, but yet “land.” “And God called the dry land Earth,”⁶⁴¹⁶

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Anf-03 v.v.xxix Pg 27
Gen. i. 9.

Why does He command it to appear, if it were not previously invisible? His purpose was also, that He might thus prevent His having made it in vain, by rendering it visible, and so fit for use. And thus, throughout, proofs arise to us that this earth which we inhabit is the very same which was both created and formed⁶⁴²⁴

⁶⁴²⁴ Ostensam: “manifested” (see note 10, p. 96.)

by God, and that none other was “Without form, and void,” than that which had been created and formed. It therefore follows that the sentence, “Now the earth was without form, and void,” applies to that same earth which God mentioned separately along with the heaven.⁶⁴²⁵

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Anf-03 v.v.xxix Pg 21
Ver. 11.

Again:  “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, after their kind.”⁶⁴¹⁸

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Anf-03 v.v.xxii Pg 3
Gen. i. 11, 12.

And again:  “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life, and fowl that may fly above the earth through the firmament of heaven. And it was so. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind.”⁶³³⁹

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Anf-03 v.iv.iii.iii Pg 11
Gen. i. 14.

Previous, then, to this temporal course, (the goodness) which created time had not time; nor before that beginning which the same goodness originated, had it a beginning.  Being therefore without all order of a beginning, and all mode of time, it will be reckoned to possess an age, measureless in extent²⁷³⁴

²⁷³⁴ Immensa.

and endless in duration;²⁷³⁵

²⁷³⁵ Interminabili.

nor will it be possible to regard it as a sudden or adventitious or impulsive emotion, because it has nothing to occasion such an estimate of itself; in other words, no sort of temporal sequence.  It must therefore be accounted an eternal attribute, inbred in God,²⁷³⁶

²⁷³⁶ Deo ingenita “Natural to,” or “inherent in.”

and everlasting,²⁷³⁷

²⁷³⁷ Perpetua. [Truly, a sublime Theodicy.]

and on this account worthy of the Divine Being, putting to shame for ever²⁷³⁸

²⁷³⁸ Suffundens jam hinc.

the benevolence of Marcion’s god, subsequent as he is to (I will not say) all beginnings and times, but to the very malignity of the Creator, if indeed malignity could possibly have been found in goodness.

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Anf-03 v.iv.vi.vi Pg 12
Gen. i. 14, inexactly quoted.

it clearly follows that the ages belong to the Creator, and that nothing of what was fore-ordained before the ages can be said to be the property of any other being than Him who claims the ages also as His own. Else let Marcion show that the ages belong to his god. He must then also claim the world itself for him; for it is in it that the ages are reckoned, the vessel as it were⁵⁴³⁶

⁵⁴³⁶ Quodammodo.

of the times, as well as the signs thereof, or their order. But he has no such demonstration to show us. I go back therefore to the point, and ask him this question: Why did (his god) fore-ordain our glory before the ages of the Creator? I could understand his having predetermined it before the ages, if he had revealed it at the commencement of time.⁵⁴³⁷

⁵⁴³⁷ Introductione sæculi.

But when he does this almost at the very expiration of all the ages⁵⁴³⁸

⁵⁴³⁸ Pæne jam totis sæculis prodactis.

of the Creator, his predestination before the ages, and not rather within the ages, was in vain, because he did not mean to make any revelation of his purpose until the ages had almost run out their course. For it is wholly inconsistent in him to be so forward in planning purposes, who is so backward in revealing them.

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Anf-03 v.ix.xii Pg 10
Gen. i. 14; 16.

But all the rest of the created things did He in like manner make, who made the former ones—I mean the Word of God, “through whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made.”⁷⁹⁰²

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Anf-01 ix.iii.iii Pg 11
Ps. xxxiii. 9, Ps. cxlviii. 5.

Whom, therefore, shall we believe as to the creation of the world—these heretics who have been mentioned that prate so foolishly and inconsistently on the subject, or the disciples of the Lord, and Moses, who was both a faithful servant of God and a prophet? He at first narrated the formation of the world in these words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,”²⁹⁹⁶

²⁹⁹⁶

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Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xvi Pg 4.1

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Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 14

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Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 60

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