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I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.” 7.5 But to the Romans: “For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive.” 7.6 And so, looking to what and thinking what sorts of things of pure knowledge of God did he again write his own things? To the Corinthians in the second epistle, that if someone is reconciled to the Son, he has been reconciled to God, and that in Christ is the world's reconciliation to God. 7.7 And it goes: “that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” 7.8 And again, how, having set aside all other things, he preached, greatly boasting that even what seems to be a reproach to Christ on account of his philanthropic economy abounds with all glory and strength, I suppose doing this in practice, so that the one who from the glorious passion does not behold the unbegotten and pure and unchangeable divinity might be convicted of arrogance by Scripture. 7.9 And he said such things: “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” But to the Romans: “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.” 7.10 through faith in the Son, he says, each one is justified by God. 7.11 But to the Galatians: “yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.” 7.12 And he explains elsewhere that “neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new faith working through love.” 7.13 As the argument deepens, the mind must be unfolded. 7.14 Therefore, he wishes to teach that the appearance of Christ discovered a certain new and only faith for all men; according to which he has left no place either for Judaism or for Hellenism. 7.15 And this would be understood also according to that which says: “Behold, the old things have passed away, all things have become new.” And to put it briefly, he who knows God ceases from the law, as he says circumcision is not perfect. 7.16 But the Son, the true and free light, has shone forth for salvation and instruction for all; and he presents this, which is unknown to some of them, mystically on account of the lingering memory in them of polytheism from Egypt. 7.17 Therefore the revered Son of God, testifying to his own nature that it is free from above and does not have creation as a sister, as it were—for all that is produced is a servant, both in its coming into being to the one who produced it and the created thing is a creature of the creator—says to Peter: 7.18 “‘From whom do the kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?’ When he answered, 'From others,' Jesus said to him, 'Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.'” 7.19 These things, then, concerning these matters. But they do not yet cease. 8.ν Concerning those who fabulate that the Father made the Son for the ministry of creation. 8.1 Blasphemously objecting and fabulating, they say that the Father made a Son who was most useful for ministering to him in regard to the rest of the created things, no longer understanding how this depends on this conjectural argument of theirs: envy and sloth and other material things. 8.2 For it is necessary, of course, to see these things also. For if it is good to create—as it is indeed good and the only property and the only prerogative of the divine, ungrudging nature, so that it might also be glorified by someone—why did he not create all things through himself, but, as it were, grew weary? 8.3 And if it is a great thing for created things to be brought into being by the greater, if indeed according to them the Father is greater than his own Son, the Word, did he begrudge those who glorify him creation through himself? 8.4 But if

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τὰ πάντα ἐζημιώθην καὶ ἡγοῦμαι σκύβαλα εἶναι, ἵνα Χριστὸν κερδήσω». 7.5 Ῥωμαίοις δέ· «εἰ μὲν γὰρ ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἄλλον Ἰησοῦν κηρύσσει, ὃν οὐκ ἐκηρύξαμεν, ἢ πνεῦμα ἕτερον λαμβάνετε, ὃ οὐκ ἐλάβετε». 7.6 Ἆρα δὲ καὶ πρὸς τί ἀπιδὼν καὶ οἷα διανοηθεὶς ἀκραιφνοῦς θεογνωσίας αὖθις ἴδια γέγραφεν· Κορινθίοις μὲν τὸ δεύτερον ὅτι γε εἰ τῷ υ̣ἱῷ τις καταλλαγῇ, τῷ θεῷ κατηλλάγη κ̣αὶ ὅτ̣ι ἐν Χριστῷ η῾̣ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν σ̣ύμβασίς ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου· 7.7 ἔχει δέ· «ὡς ὅτι θεὸς ἦν ἐν Χριστῷ κόσμον καταλλάσσων ἑαυτῷ, μὴ λογιζόμενος αὐτοῖς τὰ παραπτώμα̣τα αὐτῶν, καὶ θέμε̣νος ἐν ἡμῖν τὸν λόγον τῆς καταλλαγῆς. ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρε̣σβεύομεν ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ παρακαλοῦντος δι' ἡμῶν. δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ· καταλλάγητε τῷ θεῷ». 7.8 Καὶ πάλιν ὡς πάντα τὰ ἄλλα ᾶ παρεὶς ἐκήρυττεν μεγάλα αὐχῶν ὅτι καὶ τὸ δοκοῦν ἐπονείδιστον εἶναι Χριστῷ διὰ τὴν φιλάνθρωπον αὐτοῦ οἰκονομίαν, πᾶσαν εὔκλειαν καὶ ῥώμην βρύει, ἐγᾦμαι τοῦτο ποιῶν ἐξ ἔργου, ἵνα καὶ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ ἐνδόξου πάθους τὴν ἀγένητον καὶ ἀκήρατον καὶ ἀναλλοίωτον θεότητα μὴ κατοπτεύων γραφὴν ὑπερηφανίας ὀφλοῖ. 7.9 ἔλεγεν δὲ τοιάδε· «οὐκ ἔκρινά τι εἰδέναι ἐν ὑμῖν εἰ μὴ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν καὶ τοῦτον ἐσταυρωμένον». Ῥωμαίοις δέ· «δικαιοσύνη δὲ θεοῦ διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς πάντας τοὺς πιστεύοντας». 7.10 διὰ τῆς εἰς τὸν υἱὸν φησ̣ὶ πίστεως δικαιοῦται ὑπὸ θεοῦ ἕκαστος. 7.11 Γαλάταις δέ· «εἰδότες δὲ ὅτι οὐ δικαιοῦται ἄνθρωπος ἐξ ἔργων νόμου ἐὰν μὴ διὰ πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἡμεῖς εἰς Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐπιστεύσαμεν, ἵνα δικα̣ιωθῶμεν ἐκ πίστεως Χριστοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου, ὅτι ἐξ ἔργων νόμου οὐ δικαιωθήσεται πᾶσα σάρξ». 7.12 ἐξηγεῖται δὲ καὶ ἑτέρωθι ὅτι «οὔτε περιτομή τι ἰσχύει οὔτε ἀκροβυστία, ἀλλὰ καινὴ πίστις δ̣ι̣' α᾿̣γάπης ἐνεργουμένη». 7.13 Τοῦ δὲ λόγου βαθύνοντος τὸν νοῦν ἀναπτυκτέον. 7.14 διδάσκειν μὲν οὖν βούλεται ὡς ἡ Χριστοῦ ἐπιφάνεια καινήν̣ τινα καὶ τὴν μόνην πίστιν ἁ´̣πασιν ἀνθρώποις ἐξεύρετο· καθ' ἣν οὐδεμίαν χώραν οὔτε Ἰουδαισμῷ οὔτε Ἑλληνισμῷ καταλέλοιπεν. 7.15 αὕτη δὲ νοηθ̣ε̣ι´̣η̣ ἂν καὶ κατὰ τό· «ἰδο̣υ`̣ τὰ ἀρχαῖα παρῆλθεν, καινὰ γέγονε̣ν πάν τα». καὶ ἵνα συνελ··ε̣ι̣ παύεται μὲν̣ ὁ τὸν̣ θεὸν εἰδὼς νόμου ὡσ μὴ τελεία̣ν τὴν π̣εριτομὴν φησίν. 7.16 ἀνέλαμψεν δὲ εἰς σωτη̣ρία̣ν̣ καὶ διδασ̣καλίαν πᾶσιν φῶς τὸ ἀληθινὸν καὶ ἐλεύθερο̣ν ὁ υἱός· καὶ παρίστησι τοῦτο τό τισιν αὐτῶν ἀγν̣οου´̣μενον μυστι̣κῶς διὰ τὴν ἔναυλον ἐν αὐτοῖς τῆς πολυθεΐας ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μνήμην· 7.17 προσμαρτυρῶν τοίνυν ὁ σεπτο`̣ς θεοῦ υἱὸς τῇ οἰκείᾳ φύσει τὸ ἄνωθεν ἐλεύθερον καὶ μὴ ἀδελφὴν οἷον ἔχειν τὴν κτίσιν-δοῦλον γὰρ πᾶν τὸ παραχθὲν καὶ εἰς γένεσιν τοῦ παραγαγόντος καὶ τὸ κτισθὲν κτίσμα τοῦ κτίσαντος- λέγει πρὸς Πέτρον· 7.18 «οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς ἀπὸ τίνων λαμβάνουσιν τέλη ἢ κη῀̣ν̣σον; ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτῶν ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων; ἀποκρινομε´̣νου· ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, ἔφη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἄρα γε ἐλε̣ύθεροί εἰσιν οἱ υἱοί. ἵνα δὲ μὴ σκανδαλίσωμεν αὐτούς, πορευθεὶς εἰς θάλασσαν βάλε ἄγκιστρον καὶ τὸν ἀναβάντα πρῶτον ἰχθῦν ἇρον, καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ εὑρήσεις στατῆρα. υ ἐκεῖνον λαβὼν δὸς αὐτοῖς ἀντὶ ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ.» 7.19 ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τούτων. οἱδὲ παύονται ἔτι. 8.ν Περὶ τῶν διαμυθολογούντων ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ ἐποίησε τὸν υἱὸν ἐπὶ τῇ ὑπουργίᾳ τῆς κτίσεως. 8.1 Βλασφήμως ἀντεξάγοντες καὶ διαμυθολογοῦντες φασὶ τὸν πατέρα πεποιῆσθαι υἱὸν χρειωδέστατον ἐπὶ τὸ ὑπουργεῖν αὐτῷ πρὸς τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν κτισμάτων, οὔκετι κατανοοῦντες ὡς ἐξήρτ̣ηται τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦδε στ̣ο̣χαστικοῦ αὐτῶν λόγου· φθόνος τε καὶ ὄκνος καὶ ἕτερα υ῾̣λ̣ι̣κά. 8.2 ∆εῖ γὰρ δήπου καὶ ταῦτα ὁρᾶν. εἰ γὰρ καλὸν τὸ δημιουργεῖν-ὥσπερ οὖν καλὸν καὶ μόνον ἴδιον καὶ μόνον ἐξαίρετον τῆς θεϊκῆς ἀφθόνου φύσεως, ἵν' ἔχοι καὶ ὑπό του δοξάζηται-, ἀνθ' ὅτου μὴ πάντα δι̣' ἑαυτ̣ο̣ῦ ἔκτισεν, ἀλλ' οἱονεί πως κατώκνησεν; 8.3 εἰ δὲ καὶ μ̣έγα̣ τοῖς κτιζομένοις τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ μείζονος καὶ ἐ παρα φέρεσθαι, εἴπερ κατ' αὐτοὺς μείζων τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ λόγου ὁ πατήρ, ε᾿̣βάσκαινε τοῖς δοξάζουσιν αὐτὸν τὴν δι' ἑαυτοῦ ποίησιν; 8.4 εἰ δὲ