3 74 Master not eternal and uncaused

present scheme supposes these two inconfi'stent things joined together. The foil o'ft^of Plato did not agree among themsel veS *Some of them made matter eternalbeing an effect, a JiJl er-substance to thedyesov ytj d^eXtpljv ierlotv (k)-, as if the 1 ,

Being went as high in the highest perffA^of self-exstence , as the supreme Being.

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manner of explaining this is worth obst^ 5 . \They said, “ God was not able orcc of himself to make a world, but 1“ co-operation [a-wepytu] of eternal“ and that, all things existing ver tuall/

<c matter before-hand, he only delin e ^ c ’<c shaped and wrought them off, out ot“ common mass and from their originals“ form (/)." They indeed excluded

(k) Ibid. „

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