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Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.
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Page 23
Chapter LX.
But after this investigation of his assertions, as if his object were to swell his book by many words, he repeats, in different language, the same charges which we have examined a little ago, saying: "By far the most silly thing is the distribution of the creation of the world over certain days, before days existed: for, as the heaven was not yet created, nor the foundation of the earth yet laid, [4585] nor the sun yet revolving, [4586] how could there be days?" Now, what difference is there between these words and the following: "Moreover, taking and looking at these things from the beginning, would it not be absurd in the first and greatest God to issue the command, Let this (first thing) come into existence, and this second thing, and this (third); and after accomplishing so much on the first day, to do so much more again on the second, and third, and fourth, and fifth, and sixth?" We answered to the best of our ability this objection to God's "commanding this first, second, and third thing to be created," when we quoted the words, "He said, and it was done; He commanded, and all things stood fast;" [4587] remarking that the immediate [4588] Creator, and, as it were, very Maker [4589] of the world was the Word, the Son of God; while the Father of the Word, by commanding His own Son--the Word--to create the world, is primarily Creator.
[4585] erereismenes.
[4586] tede pheromenou.
[4587] Cf. Ps. xxxiii. 9.
[4588] ton prosechos demiourgon.
[4589] autourgon.
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