Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

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XXIV.

“God is not as a man.”40 Num. xxiii. 19. He thus shows that all men are indeed guilty of falsehood, inasmuch as they change from one thing to another (μεταφερόμενοι); but such is not the case with God, for He always continues true, perfecting whatever He wishes.