Fragments from on first principles 1 eusebius, against marcellus i 4 (gcs 14, p. 3, 11-18): (marcellus:) for he wrote at the beginning (namely, of the

 More or less, as from this cause, by a divine judgment which measures out desert in accordance with the better or worse movements of each one, one wil

 212, 3-8 schw.): from the second book of the work on first principles , how mind became soul and how the soul, having been purified, becomes mind. (fr

 It is the mindset of a diligent person. (2)at any rate, after the things said as in a training exercise against the heretics, he immediately adds his

 7-8: (for the prophet's saying, he says (scil. or.), before i was humbled i went astray, the word is from the soul itself, he says, as though it wen

7-8: (For the prophet's saying, he says (scil. Or.), "Before I was humbled I went astray," the word is from the soul itself, he says, as though it went astray above in heaven, before being humbled in the body;) and (the saying "Return, O my soul, to your rest," as of one who has acted virtuously here in good work returning to the rest above because of the righteousness of his work.)

7-8: (τὸ γὰρ εἰπεῖν, φησί (scil. ορ.), τὸν προφή-την «πρὶν ἢ ταπεινωθῆναί με ἐγὼ ἐπλημμέλησα», ἐξ αὐτῆς, φησί, τῆς ψυχῆς ὁ λόγος, ὡς ἄνω ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐπλημμέλησε, πρὶν ἢ ἐν τῷ σώματι τεταπεινῶσθαι·) καὶ (τὸ εἰπεῖν «ἐπίστρεψον, ἡ ψυχή μου, εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσίν σου», ὡς τοῦ ἀνδραγαθήσαντος ἐνταῦθα ἐν ἀγαθοεργίᾳ ἐπιστρέ- φοντος εἰς τὴν ἄνω ἀνάπαυσιν διὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐργασίας δικαιο-πραγίαν.)