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and the matters of the place require very deep contemplation, these things are sufficient for the present hypothesis. CHAPTER 4. And Hagar fled from her face; clearly that of Sarah; and an angel of the Lord found her by the spring of water; and in the following it is said a second time, and the angel of the Lord said to her; and a third time, the angel of the Lord said to her, I will surely multiply your seed, and it shall not be numbered for multitude; and again, the angel of the lord said to her: Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Ishmael; because the Lord has heard your affliction; and after all these words it is said, And she called the name of the Lord that spoke to her, You are God who sees me; if he who appeared to the wandering Hagar had not also been named Lord 15 by the sacred scripture in the passage, ‘and she called the name of the Lord that spoke to her,’ one might have supposed that Hagar had mistakenly taken the angel for God; but now the scripture testifies that it was the Lord who was giving oracles through the aforementioned angel, through whom, being Lord and God, he appropriately said, ‘I will surely multiply your seed’; for this would be fitting for God alone to say, and no longer for an angel; and it is likely that Hagar, having paid attention to this utterance, and understanding that such a voice could only be of God, said, ‘You are God who sees me’; but also a second time, when she fled, having her son with her, it is written, an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her the things that have been written, among which is also this, ‘for I will make him a nation’; clearly, the child; which would no longer be credible for the angel to say, for the promise is again God's. Of which lord, then, did Hagar call the name, ‘You are God who sees me,’ when here the scripture contains the Tetragrammaton, the name among the Hebrews for the Lord? Or is it clear from what has been previously shown, that it was of the Logos, who was in the beginning with God, who being present, and overseeing and managing human affairs from the beginning, to men who were advanced and perfect, such as were Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, he himself through himself provided the visions; but to those who fell short of their virtue, such as was Lot, and in Judges, Gideon and Manoah, and as many as are like them, using as ministers and servants the divine angels under him 16 in many parts and in many ways he provided the promises through them. In this way, therefore, also to Hagar, since she was not yet able to receive the vision of the divine Logos himself, he proclaims the written things through the angel; if he still appears to Jacob through angels; but see that even this he reveals in this way at the beginning, as to one still being initiated, but to one who has progressed and advanced to perfection he imparts his own naked and unveiled discourse, no longer through angels and through interpreters, but he himself through himself, the Lord and God Logos, who holds the second place of the paternal divinity, deeming him worthy of his own vision. CHAPTER 5. The sun rose upon the earth, and Lot entered into Zoar. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. I do not think that anyone of those who have once believed the holy scriptures to be sacred and divinely inspired would invent specious arguments concerning these passages, attempting to contradict what has been handed down concerning the Logos of God, both that he pre-existed, having his own hypostasis, and that before the incarnation he accomplished the economies for men; for here the scripture clearly presents two Lords, since the Lord rained from the Lord. The same can be found in the holy apostle when he said, May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; and May he grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day. But in these passages, articulating the words concerning the Father and the Son, attributing to the unbegotten and Father of all the 17 lordship and authority over all things and over the Son himself, and to the Logos the second place after the Father of the rule over all created things and

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δὲ καὶ βαθυτάτης δεομένων θεωρίας τῶν κατὰ τὸν τόπον, ἱκανὰ καὶ ταῦτα πρὸς τὴν παροῦσαν ὑπόθεσιν. ∆ʹ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ. Καὶ ἀπέδρα Ἅγαρ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῆς· δῆλον ὅτι τῆς Σάρρας· εὗρε δὲ αὐτὴν ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἐπὶ τῆς πηγῆς τοῦ ὕδατος· καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς δεύτερον εἴρηται, εἶπεν δὲ αὐτὴν ὁ ἄγγελος Κυρίου· καὶ τρίτον δὲ, εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ ἄγγελος Κυρίου, Πληθύνων πληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα σου, καὶ οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους· καὶ αὖθις, εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ ἄγγελος κυρίου· Ἰδοὺ σὺ ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξεις, καὶ τέξῃ υἱὸν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰσμαήλ· ὅτι ἐπήκουσε Κύριος τῇ ταπεινώσει σου· καὶ μετὰ πάντας τοὺς λόγους εἴρηται, Καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου τοῦ λαλοῦντος πρὸς αὐτὴν, Σὺ Θεὸς ὁ ἐπιδών με· εἰ μὴ καὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς ἱερᾶς γραφῆς κύριος ὠνόμαστο 15 τῇ Ἅγαρ ἐπιφανεὶς ἀλωμένῃ ἐν τῷ, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου τοῦ λαλοῦντος πρὸς αὐτὴν, κἂν ὑπέλαβέ τις τὴν Ἅγαρ Θεὸν ἐσφαλμένως ὑπειληφέναι τὸν ἄγγελον· νυνὶ δὲ ἡ γραφὴ μαρτυρεῖ, ὅτι Κύριος ἦν ὁ διὰ τοῦ προωνομασμένου χρηματίζων ἀγγέλου, δι' οὗ ἅτε Κύριος καὶ Θεὸς ὢν πρεπόντως ἑαυτῷ ἔλεγε τὸ, Πληθύνων πληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα σου· τοῦτο γὰρ Θεῷ μόνῳ ἁρμόζοι ἂν λέγειν, οὐκέτι δὲ καὶ ἀγγέλῳ· τούτῳ δ' αὖ τῷ ῥήματι καὶ τὴν Ἅγαρ εἰκὸς ἐπιστήσασαν, συνεῖσάν τε ὅτι μόνου Θεοῦ γένοιτ' ἂν ἡ τοιαύτη φωνὴ, εἰρηκέναι, ὅτι σὺ Θεὸς ὁ ἐπιδών με· ἀλλὰ καὶ δεύτερον, ὅτε ἀποδιδράσκει μεθ' ἑαυτῆς ἔχουσα τὸν υἱὸν, γέγραπται, ἐκάλεσεν δὲ ἄγγελος τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν Ἅγαρ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ τὰ ἀναγεγραμμένα, ἐν οἷς ἐστιν καὶ τὸ, εἰς γὰρ ἔθνος ποιήσω αὐτό· δῆλον δ' ὅτι τὸ παιδίον· ὅπερ οὐκέτι τὸν ἄγγελον ἀξιόπιστον ἂν εἴη λέγειν, Θεοῦ γὰρ πάλιν ἡ ἐπαγγελία. Τίνος οὖν κυρίου ἐκάλεσεν ἡ Ἅγαρ τοὔνομα, Σὺ ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἐπιδών με, κἀνταῦθα τῆς γραφῆς ἐπὶ τοῦ κυρίου τὸ τετράγραμμον παρ' Ἑβραίοις ὄνομα περιεχούσης; ἢ δῆλον ἐκ τῶν προαποδεδομένων, ὅτι δὴ τοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν Λόγου, ὃς ἐπιπαρὼν, καὶ τὰ κατ' ἀνθρώπους ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐφορῶν τε καὶ οἰκονομῶν, τοῖς μὲν ἐπαναβεβηκόσι καὶ τελείοις ἀνδράσιν, οἷος ἦν ὅ τε Ἁβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ, αὐτὸς δι' ἑαυτοῦ παρείχετο τὰς ὀπτασίας· τοῖς δὲ τῆς τούτων ἀρετῆς ἀποδέουσιν, οἷος ἦν ὁ Λὼτ, καὶ οἱ ἐν τοῖς Κριταῖς Γεδεῶν τε καὶ Μανωὲ, καὶ ὅσοι τούτοις ἐμφέρονται παραπλήσιοι, λειτουργοῖς καὶ διακόνοις τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτὸν θείοις ἀγγέλοις χρώμενος 16 πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως παρείχετο δι' αὐτῶν τὰς ἐπαγγελίας. Ταύτῃ γοὖν καὶ τῇ Ἅγαρ, ἅτε μὴ οἵᾳ τε οὔσῃ πῶ τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ θείου Λόγου χωρεῖν ὀπτασίαν, διὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου τὰ ἀναγεγραμμένα θεσπίζει· εἰ ἔτι δὲ καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ δι' ἀγγέλων ἐπιφαίνεται· ἀλλ' ὅρα ὅτι καὶ τοῦτο κατ' ἀρχὰς μὲν ὡς ἂν ἔτι εἰσαγομένῳ τοῦτον χρηματίζει τὸν τρόπον, προκόψαντι δὲ καὶ εἰς τελειότητα ἐπιδόντι γυμνῆς καὶ ἀνεπικαλύπτου τῆς ἰδίας μεταδίδωσιν ὁμιλίας, οὐκέτι μὲν δι' ἀγγέλων καὶ δι' ἑρμηνέων, αὐτὸς δὲ δι' ἑαυτοῦ ὁ Κύριος καὶ Θεὸς Λόγος, ὁ τὰ δευτερεῖα τῆς πατρικῆς ἐπέχων θεότητος, τῆς ἰδίας αὐτὸν καταξιῶν ὀπτασίας. Εʹ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ. Ὁ ἥλιος ἐξῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ Λὼτ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Σηγώρ. Καὶ Κύριος ἔβρεξεν ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θεῖον καὶ πῦρ παρὰ Κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. Οὐκ οἶμαι τινὰ τῶν ἅπαξ πεπιστευκότων ἱερὰς καὶ θεοπνεύστους ὑπάρχειν τὰς ἁγίας γραφὰς εὑρεσιλογεῖν τι εἰς τοὺς τόπους, ἀντιλέγειν πειρώμενον τοῖς περὶ τοῦ Λόγου τοῦ Θεοῦ παραδεδομένοις, ὅτι τε προῆν ὑπόστασιν ἰδίαν ἔχων, καὶ ὅτι πρὸ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως τὰς εἰς ἀνθρώπους οἰκονομίας ἐτέλει· δύο γὰρ κυρίους ἐνταῦθα σαφῶς ἡ γραφὴ παρίστησιν, εἴ γε Κύριος ἔβρεξεν παρὰ Κυρίου. Τὸ δ' ὅμοιόν ἐστιν εὑρεῖν παρὰ τῷ ἱερῷ ἀποστόλῳ φήσαντι, ∆ῴη ὁ Κύριος ἔλεος τῷ Ὀνησιφόρου οἴκῳ· καὶ ∆ῴη αὐτῷ εὑρεῖν ἔλεος παρὰ Κυρίου ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐν τούτοις περὶ Πατρὸς καὶ Υἱοῦ διαρθροῦν λόγους, τῷ μὲν ἀγενήτῳ καὶ Πατρὶ τῶν ὅλων τὴν 17 κατὰ πάντων καὶ κατ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ Υἱοῦ κυρίαν τε καὶ αὐθεντείαν ἀνατιθέντας, τῷ δὲ τῷ Λόγῳ τὰ δευτερεῖα μετὰ τὸν Πατέρα τῆς κατὰ πάντων τῶν γεγενημένων ἀρχῆς τε καὶ