Anf-01 ix.iv.ix Pg 11
Ps. xxxiii. 6.
But that He did Himself make all things freely, and as He pleased, again David says, “But our God is in the heavens above, and in the earth; He hath made all things whatsoever He pleased.”3372 3372
Anf-01 ix.ii.xxiii Pg 3
Ps. xxxiii. 6.
And again, “All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.”2931 2931
Anf-02 iv.ii.i.vii Pg 2.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.iv Pg 39.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xvi Pg 4.1
Anf-03 v.v.xlv Pg 5
Spiritu Ipsius: “by His Spirit.” See Ps. xxxiii. 6.
He is the Lord’s right hand,6596 6596
Anf-03 v.ix.vii Pg 14
Ps. xxxiii. 6.
—that is to say, by the Spirit (or Divine Nature) which was in the Word: thus is it evident that it is one and the same power which is in one place described under the name of Wisdom, and in another passage under the appellation of the Word, which was initiated for the works of God7835 7835
Anf-03 v.ix.xix Pg 9
Ps. xxxiii. 6.
Now this Word, the Power of God and the Wisdom of God, must be the very Son of God. So that, if (He did) all things by the Son, He must have stretched out the heavens by the Son, and so not have stretched them out alone, except in the sense in which He is “alone” (and apart) from all other gods. Accordingly He says, concerning the Son, immediately afterwards: “Who else is it that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making their knowledge foolish, and confirming the words7996 7996
Anf-03 v.ix.xix Pg 14
Ps. xxxiii. 6.
Inasmuch, then, as the heaven was prepared when Wisdom was present in the Word, and since all things were made by the Word, it is quite correct to say that even the Son stretched out the heaven alone, because He alone ministered to the Father’s work. It must also be He who says, “I am the First, and to all futurity I AM.”8001 8001
Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.
Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983 6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.
nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984 6984 Corpore.
of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985 6985
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 102
VERSE (21) - Ps 33:6 Ge 32:2 Jos 5:14 1Ki 22:19 2Ch 18:18 Lu 2:13
