An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. John of Damascus
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| Автор произведения | John of Damascus |
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Further the divine effulgence and energy, being one and simple and indivisible, assuming many varied forms in its goodness among what is divisible and allotting to each the component parts of its own nature, still remains simple and is multiplied without division among the divided, and gathers and converts the divided into its own simplicity3. For all things long after it and have their existence in it. It gives also to all things being according to their several natures4, and it is itself the being of existing things, the life of living things, the reason of rational beings, the thought of thinking beings. But it is itself above mind and reason and life and essence.
Further the divine nature has the property of penetrating all things without mixing with them and of being itself impenetrable by anything else. Moreover, there is the property of knowing all things with a simple knowledge and of seeing all things, simply with His divine, all-surveying, immaterial eye, both the things of the present, and the things of the past, and the things of the future, before they come into being5. It is also sinless, and can cast sin out, and bring salvation: and all that it wills, it can accomplish, but does not will all it could accomplish. For it could destroy the universe but it does not will so to do6.
Footnotes
1 Text, τὸ ἄ& 203·λον: in one codex there is added as emendation or explanation, τὸ ἁπλοῦν, τὸ ἀσύνθετον.
2 Greg. Naz., Orat. 1, 13 and 40.
3 Dionys., De div. nom., c. 5.
4 Text, καθὼς ἔχει φύσεως: in the margin of the manuscript is ὡς ἔχουσι.
5 Dan. ii. 22.
6 Greg., Orat. 40.
Book II
Chapter I.—Concerning æon or age.
Chapter II.—Concerning the creation.
Chapter III.—Concerning angels.
Chapter IV.—Concerning the devil and demons.
Chapter V.—Concerning the visible creation.
Chapter VI.—Concerning the Heaven.
Chapter VII.—Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars.
Chapter VIII.—Concerning air and winds.
Chapter IX.—Concerning the waters.
Chapter X.—Concerning earth and its products.
Chapter XI.—Concerning Paradise.
Chapter XIII.—Concerning Pleasures.
Chapter XVI.—Concerning Anger.
Chapter XVII.—Concerning Imagination.
Chapter XVIII.—Concerning Sensation.
Chapter XIX.—Concerning Thought.
Chapter XX.—Concerning Memory.
Chapter XXI.—Concerning Conception and Articulation.
Chapter XXII.—Concerning Passion and Energy.
Chapter XXIII.—Concerning Energy.
Chapter XXIV.—Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary.
Chapter XXV.—Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will1.
Chapter XXVI.—Concerning Events1.
Chapter XXVII.—Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will.
Chapter XXVIII.—Concerning what is not in our hands.
Chapter XXIX.—Concerning Providence.
Chapter XXX.—Concerning Prescience and Predestination.
Chapter I.—Concerning æon or age.
He created the ages Who Himself was before the ages, Whom the divine David thus addresses, From age to age Thou art1. The divine apostle also says, Through Whom He created the ages2.