OF THE HOLY JUSTIN, PHILOSOPHER AND MARTYR
power, which is absurd for what is in time is corruptible. But if, being able long ago to prevent so great an evil, he did not prevent it, he would b
form, but ignorance of God which has spoken the falsehood which is a third form of the greatest evil, resulting for them from the voluntary disobedie
For, he says, ignorance is often given to men for their good at any rate we see in many cases that it often happens that things known are despised mo
the religions of the earth differ from the religion that holds the true doctrine simply by falsehood, but from each other in the differences of falseh
the creator and God ordained the day, on which he makes an abolition of all the evils in the world arising from unbelief and disobedience to God, acco
to God, the creator of the world, they name the parts of the world, and without the act of creating, they attribute to God the name of creator, so tha
and in actuality which is absurd. He who remains the same, therefore, has nothing temporal. He makes the world, therefore, always ordering it, and th
become significant and affirmative of God that all the works of God are temporal with him, it is clear that he absurdly supposed that nothing temporal
of each other? For 'He has not so much made as He makes' is not a negation of 'to have made', but rather an affirmation of 'He has made'. But clearly,
the sun in its substance, or according to one act of creation He made its substance and according to another act of creation its motion, and having ma
Is not God, in respect to the powers He has but according to which He does not act, corruptible according to the judgment of the one who answered? But
or the denial to be true, how did the respondent posit both for the generation of the world, both the affirmation and the denial, saying it is both cr
makes different things. Let us not consider God in human terms. For not as we, who previously are one way and later change into another, are said to m
will. How then is the will the same as the essence, when that which is willed and the will are one thing and another, just as the sensible and sensati
by essence. But if it is essence, he who wills does not exist, but if it is added to the essence, it is necessarily one thing and another for that wh
makes of themselves, in the same way also God, being ungenerated, ungeneratedly makes all things, not becoming but co-existing, and by the infinity of
can. But let us not consider God's creating in a human way. For not as we, who previously are one way, and later changing into another, are said to cr
of milk, but nature in no way makes substance all at once. How then is the respondent not using an inappropriate example, the working of nature, to re
For first the simple, but later the composite. Just as God is beyond reproach for the weakness of power, because he did not make more worlds, but havi
having come to its manifestation, how is it not that in the work of God all the parts of time exist? Fourth Christian question to the Greeks. If it is
of the known ones of the world he dogmatized its ungeneratedness, nor did he establish this through proof, but only according to his own authority did
It is clear from this, that the world is not a relative term to the creator insofar as it is an image, nor to the paradigm insofar as it is a creation
is, he ought also to say that the creation is uncreated, since its creator is uncreated for they necessarily follow one another, the uncreated with t
kinds, of which it is a common feature for one to be spoken of sometimes in potentiality for what they are called, and sometimes in actuality, while o
Fifth Christian question to the Hellenes. If heaven is uncreated and God is uncreated and God dwells in heaven, how is God not insulted dwelling in th
and having made it and to say that the world, without interval, eternally co-exists with God, the world which received its existence from the Creat