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Chapter II.--The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All.

To know [3512] God is, then, the first step of faith; then, through confidence in the teaching of the Saviour, to consider the doing of wrong in any way as not suitable to the knowledge of God.

So the best thing on earth is the most pious man; and the best thing in heaven, the nearer in place and purer, is an angel, the partaker of the eternal and blessed life. But the nature of the Son, which is nearest to Him who is alone the Almighty One, is the most perfect, and most holy, and most potent, and most princely, and most kingly, and most beneficent. This is the highest excellence, which orders all things in accordance with the Father's will, and holds the helm of the universe in the best way, with unwearied and tireless power, working all things in which it operates, keeping in view its hidden designs. For from His own point of view the Son of God is never displaced; not being divided, not severed, not passing from place to place; being always everywhere, and being contained nowhere; complete mind, the complete paternal light; all eyes, seeing all things, hearing all things, knowing all things, by His power scrutinizing the powers. To Him is placed in subjection all the host of angels and gods; He, the paternal Word, exhibiting [3513] a the holy administration for Him who put [all] in subjection to Him.

[3512] The sentence has been thus rendered by Sylburgius and by Bp. Kaye. Lowth, however, suggests the supplying of energei, or something similar, to govern pepoithesin, confidence.

[3513] Anadedeigmeno. Instead of this, anadedegmeno, " having received," has been suggested by Sylburgius.
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