Denial of Eunomius
Author | : St Gregory Of Nyssa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9798663217323 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: ... so that by means of the visible it becomes clear and unknown, I will add: according to the Mosaic Scripture, asserting that after heaven man was created on the fifth day, by this word, without speaking aloud, we also affirm that five days before this day heaven had not yet been; the distance of time that takes place after something precedes it determines the existence of what is thought to be former before. If, by way of an example of this, we have not sufficiently understood our thought, then we can imagine what we took for granted, saying that the law was given through Moses after four hundred and thirty years from the promise to Abraham. If, having returned from the law and having flowed with thought the time preceding it, we have reached the limit of the named number of years, then we clearly understand that until now the promise of God has not yet been. And much can be said, similar to this, but I refuse to list all of these individually, as this is a boring thing. / "See how it pleases in your view the eternal birth of existing in the beginning of God Words that carefully examine the nature of beings, bodies on the earth and the material cause, and the passion of those giving birth and those born, and everything similar to what another of those with a mind would be ashamed of if this were said about us, our passionate nature was exposed to shame in the word.