Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xiv Pg 34
Isa. xl. 13, quoted (according to the Sept.) by the apostle in Rom. xi. 34, 35.
Now, (Marcion,) since you have expunged so much from the Scriptures, why did you retain these words, as if they too were not the Creator’s words? But come now, let us see without mistake5869 5869 Plane: ironically.
the precepts of your new god: “Abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good.”5870 5870
Anf-03 v.v.xvii Pg 4
Rom. xi. 34, 35; comp. Isa. xl. 14.
Surely none! Because there was present with Him no power, no material, no nature which belonged to any other than Himself. But if it was with some (portion of Matter)6289 6289 De aliquo.
that He effected His creation, He must have received from that (Matter) itself both the design and the treatment of its order as being “the way of wisdom and knowledge.” For He had to operate conformably with the quality of the thing, and according to the nature of Matter, not according to His own will in consequence of which He must have made6290 6290 Adeo ut fecerit.
even evil things suitably to the nature not of Himself, but of Matter.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 11
VERSE (35) - Job 35:7; 41:11 Mt 20:15 1Co 4:7
