The Refutation of All Heresies (Volume 1)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1868. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART I--EXEGETICAL. FRAGMENTS FROM COMMENTARIES ON VARIOUS BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE. OX THE HEXAEMERON' (OR SIX DAYS' WORK). [In John Damasc. Sacr. ParalL, Works, ii. p. 787.] -OW these things we are under the necessity of setting forth at length, in order to disprove the supposition of others. For some choose to maintain that paradise is in heaven, and forms no part of the system of creation. But since we see with our eyes the rivers that go forth from it, which are open, indeed, even in our day to the inspection of any who choose, let every one conclude from this that it did not belong to heaven, but was in reality planted in the created system. And, in truth, it is a locality in the east, and a place select. ON GENESIS. [These fragments are excerpts from a Commentary on Genesis, compiled from eighty-eight fathers, which is extant in manuscript in the Vienna Library. They are found also in a Catena on Matthew, issued at Leipsic in 1772.] Gen. I. 5. And it was evening, and it was morning, one day. Hippolttus. He did not say 2night and day, but one day, 1 That Hippolytus wrote on the Hexaemeron is noticed by Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vi. 22, and by Jerome, Syncellus, Honorius, etc. 2 i.e. W)i6yifiipo-. with reference to the name of the light. He did not say the first day; for if he had said the first day, he would also have had to say that the second day was made. But it was right to speak not of the first day, but of one day, in order that by saying one, he might show that it returns on its orbit, and, while it remains one, makes up the week. Gen. I. 6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water. Hipp. On the first day God made what He made out of nothing. But on the other days He did not make out of nothing, but out of what He had mad...