according to the not yet created creation, he was alone; but inasmuch as all power of things visible and invisible was itself substance with him, he himself and the Word, who was in him, gave substance to all things with himself through rational power. By the will of his simplicity the Word springs forth; and the Word, not proceeding into a void, becomes the _f_i_r_s_t_-_b_o_r_n_ work of the Father. This we know to be the beginning of the world. But he came into being by partition, not by cutting off; for what is cut off is separated from the first, but what is partitioned, having taken on the division for the sake of the economy, 5.2 has not made deficient him from whom it was taken. For just as from one torch many fires are kindled, but the light of the first torch is not diminished by the kindling of many torches, so also the Word, having come forth from the power of the Father, has not made irrational him who begot him. For I myself speak, and you hear; and surely by the transmission of the word I who am speaking do not become empty of word, but in putting forth my voice I have chosen to order the unordered matter in you and just as the Word, begotten in the beginning, in turn begot for himself our creation, having fashioned the matter, so I too, 5.3 in imitation of the Word, having been born again and having attained a comprehension of the truth, am re-forming the confusion of the kindred matter. For matter is neither without beginning, like God, nor, because of being without beginning, is it also equal in power to God, but it is brought into being and not made by another, but brought forth by the Creator of all things alone. 6.1 And for this reason we have believed that there will be a resurrection of bodies after the consummation of all things, not as the Stoics teach, according to certain cycles of periods in which the same things are always coming into being and ceasing to be for no useful purpose, but _o_n_c_e_ _o_f_ our _a_g_e_s_ having been completed and for the utter completion the constitution will be for the sake of judgment through men alone. And they who judge us are not Minos nor Rhadamanthus, before whose death none of the souls, as they mythologize, was judged, but the Maker, God himself, becomes the examiner. For even if you consider us altogether triflers and _b_a_b_b_l_e_r_s_, it is of no concern to us, since we have believed in this doctrine. For just as, not being before 6.2 I came to be, I did not know who I was, but only existed in the substance of fleshly matter, but having come to be, I who was not before have believed in my existence through birth; in the same way, I who have been and through death am no more, and again am no more seen, shall be again just as I was not before, and then was born. And even if fire destroys my little flesh, the world has received the matter which has been turned into vapor; and if I am consumed in rivers or in seas, or if I am torn apart by wild beasts, I am laid up in the storehouses of a rich master. And the poor and godless man does not know the things that are laid up, but God the King, when he wishes, will restore to its original state the substance that is visible to him alone. 7.1 For the heavenly Word, having become spirit from the Spirit and word from rational power, in imitation of the Father who begot him, made man an image of immortality, so that, just as incorruptibility is with God, in the same way man, having partaken of a portion of God, might have immortality also. The Word, therefore, before the creation of men, becomes the creator of angels, and each form of the creation was made with free will, not having the nature of the good, which *** except only with God, but being perfected by men through the freedom of their choice, so that the wicked man might be justly punished, having become depraved through himself, and the just man be worthily praised for his noble deeds, 7.2 not having transgressed the will of God in accordance with his free will. And the things concerning angels and men are in this manner; but the power of the Word, having in itself foreknowledge *** of what is going to happen not according to fate but by the free-willed decision of those who choose, foretold the outcomes of future events and became a restrainer of wickedness through prohibitions,

κατὰ μὲν τὴν μηδέπω γεγενημένην ποίησιν μόνος ἦν· καθὸ δὲ πᾶσα δύναμις ὁρατῶν τε καὶ ἀοράτων αὐτὸς ὑπόστασις ἦν σὺν αὐτῷ, τὰ πάντα σὺν αὑτῷ διὰ λογικῆς δυνάμεως αὐτὸς καὶ ὁ λόγος, ὃς ἦν ἐν αὐτῷ, ὑπέστησεν. θελήματι δὲ τῆς ἁπλότητος αὐτοῦ προπηδᾷ λόγος· ὁ δὲ λόγος οὐ κατὰ κενοῦ χωρήσας ἔργον _π_ρ_ω_τ_ό_τ_ο_κ_ο_ν τοῦ πατρὸς γίνεται. τοῦτον ἴσμεν τοῦ κόσμου τὴν ἀρχήν. γέγονεν δὲ κατὰ μερισμόν, οὐ κατὰ ἀποκοπήν· τὸ γὰρ ἀποτμηθὲν τοῦ πρώτου κεχώρισται, τὸ δὲ μερισθὲν οἰκονομίας 5.2 τὴν διαίρεσιν προσλαβὸν οὐκ ἐνδεᾶ τὸν ὅθεν εἴληπται πεποίηκεν. ὥσπερ γὰρ ἀπὸ μιᾶς δᾳδὸς ἀνάπτεται μὲν πυρὰ πολλά, τῆς δὲ πρώτης δᾳδὸς διὰ τὴν ἔξαψιν τῶν πολλῶν δᾳδῶν οὐκ ἐλαττοῦται τὸ φῶς, οὕτω καὶ ὁ λόγος προελθὼν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς δυνάμεως οὐκ ἄλογον πεποίηκε τὸν γεγεννηκότα. καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐγὼ λαλῶ, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀκούετε· καὶ οὐ δήπου διὰ τῆς μεταβάσεως τοῦ λόγου κενὸς ὁ προσομιλῶν τοῦ λόγου γίνομαι, προβαλλόμενος δὲ τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ φωνὴν διακοσμεῖν τὴν ἐν ὑμῖν ἀκόσμητον ὕλην προῄρημαι καὶ καθάπερ ὁ λόγος ἐν ἀρχῇ γεννηθεὶς ἀντεγέννησε τὴν καθ' ἡμᾶς ποίησιν αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ, τὴν ὕλην δημιουργήσας, οὕτω κἀγὼ 5.3 κατὰ τὴν τοῦ λόγου μίμησιν ἀναγεννηθεὶς καὶ τὴν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς κατάληψιν πεποιημένος μεταρρυθμίζω τῆς συγγενοῦς ὕλης τὴν σύγχυσιν. οὔτε γὰρ ἄναρχος ἡ ὕλη καθάπερ καὶ ὁ θεός, οὔτε διὰ τὸ ἄναρχον καὶ αὐτὴ ἰσοδύναμος τῷ θεῷ, γενητὴ δὲ καὶ οὐχ ὑπὸ ἄλλου γεγονυῖα, μόνου δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάντων δημιουργοῦ προβεβλημένη. 6.1 Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ σωμάτων ἀνάστασιν ἔσεσθαι πεπιστεύκαμεν μετὰ τὴν τῶν ὅλων συντέλειαν, οὐχ ὡς οἱ Στωϊκοὶ δογματίζουσι κατά τινας κύκλων περιόδους γινομένων ἀεὶ καὶ ἀπογινομένων τῶν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπί τι χρήσιμον, _ἅ_π_α_ξ δὲ _τ_ῶ_ν καθ' ἡμᾶς _α_ἰ_ώ_ν_ω_ν πεπερασμένων καὶ εἰς τὸ παντελὲς διὰ μόνων τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν σύστασιν ἔσεσθαι χάριν κρίσεως. δικάζουσι δὲ ἡμῖν οὐ Μίνως οὐδὲ Ῥαδάμανθυς, ὧν πρὸ τῆς τελευτῆς οὐδεμία τῶν ψυχῶν, ὡς μυθολογοῦσιν, ἐκρίνετο, δοκιμαστὴς δὲ αὐτὸς ὁ ποιητὴς θεὸς γίνεται. κἂν γὰρ πάνυ φληνάφους τε καὶ _σ_π_ε_ρ_μ_ο_λ_ό_γ_ο_υ_ς ἡμᾶς νομίσητε, μέλον οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν, ἐπεὶ τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ πεπιστεύκαμεν. ὥσπερ γὰρ οὐκ ὢν πρὶν ἢ 6.2 γενέσθαι τίς ἤμην οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον, μόνον δὲ ἐν ὑποστάσει τῆς σαρκικῆς ὕλης ὑπῆρχον, γεγονὼς δὲ ὁ μὴ πάλαι διὰ τῆς γενέσεως τὸ εἶναι πεπίστευκα· τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὁ γενόμενος καὶ διὰ θανάτου μηκέτ' ὢν αὖθίς τε μηκέθ' ὁρώμενος ἔσομαι πάλιν ὥσπερ μὴ πάλαι γεγονὼς εἶτα γεννηθείς. κἂν πῦρ ἐξαφανίσῃ μου τὸ σαρκίον, ἐξατμισθεῖσαν τὴν ὕλην ὁ κόσμος κεχώρηκε· κἂν ἐν ποταμοῖς κἂν ἐν θαλάσσαις ἐκδαπανηθῶ κἂν ὑπὸ θηρίων διασπασθῶ, ταμείοις ἐναπόκειμαι πλουσίου δεσπότου. καὶ ὁ μὲν πτωχὸς καὶ ἄθεος οὐκ οἶδεν τὰ ἀποκείμενα, θεὸς δὲ ὁ βασιλεύων, ὅτε βούλεται, τὴν ὁρατὴν αὐτῷ μόνον ὑπόστασιν ἀποκαταστήσει πρὸς τὸ ἀρχαῖον. 7.1 Λόγος γὰρ ὁ ἐπουράνιος πνεῦμα γεγονὼς ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ λόγος ἐκ λογικῆς δυνάμεως, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ γεννήσαντος αὐτὸν πατρὸς μίμησιν εἰκόνα τῆς ἀθανασίας τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐποίησεν, ἵν', ὥσπερ ἡ ἀφθαρσία παρὰ τῷ θεῷ, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον θεοῦ μοίρας ἄνθρωπος μεταλαβὼν ἔχῃ καὶ τὸ ἀθάνατον. ὁ μὲν οὖν λόγος πρὸ τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατασκευῆς ἀγγέλων δημιουργὸς γίνεται, τὸ δὲ ἑκάτερον τῆς ποιήσεως εἶδος αὐτεξούσιον γέγονε τἀγαθοῦ φύσιν μὴ ἔχον, ὃ *** πλὴν μόνον παρὰ τῷ θεῷ, τῇ δὲ ἐλευθερίᾳ τῆς προαιρέσεως ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐκτελειούμενον, ὅπως ὁ μὲν φαῦλος δικαίως κολάζηται δι' αὑτὸν γεγονὼς μοχθηρός, ὁ δὲ δίκαιος χάριν τῶν ἀνδραγαθημάτων 7.2 ἀξίως ἐπαινῆται κατὰ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ παραβὰς τὸ βούλημα. καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους καὶ ἀνθρώπους τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον· ἡ δὲ τοῦ λόγου δύναμις ἔχουσα παρ' ἑαυτῇ τὸ προγνωστικὸν *** τὸ μέλλον ἀποβαίνειν οὐ καθ' εἱμαρμένην τῇ δὲ τῶν αἱρουμένων αὐτεξουσίῳ γνώμῃ, τῶν μελλόντων προὔλεγε τὰς ἀποβάσεις καὶ τῆς μὲν πονηρίας κωλυτὴς ἐγίνετο δι' ἀπαγορεύσεων,