Containing Various Sections of the Works.
II. A Refutation of This Dogma on the Ground of Familiar Human Analogies.
III. A Refutation on the Ground of the Constitution of the Universe.
IV. A Refutation of the Same on the Grounds of the Human Constitution.
V. That to Work is Not a Matter of Pain and Weariness to God.
Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome.
About the Middle of the Treatise.
The Conclusion of the Entire Treatise.
The Epistle to Bishop Basilides.
Containing Epistles, or Fragments of Epistles.
From the Same Second Book.
12. In the beginning was the Word.123 John i. 1. [For ῥημα, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.] But that was not the Word which produced the Word.124 Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra.] For “the Word was with God.”125 John i. 1. [For ῥημα, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.] The Lord is Wisdom; it was not therefore Wisdom that produced Wisdom; for “I was that” says He, “wherein He delighted.”126 Prov. viii. 30. Christ is truth; but “blessed,” says He, “is the God of truth.”