Extant Fragments · IV.—Epistle to Dionysius Bishop of Rome

From the Same Second Book

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12. In the beginning was the Word.⁷³⁴ But that was not the Word which produced the Word.⁷³⁵ For "the Word was with God."⁷³⁶ The Lord is Wisdom; it was not therefore Wisdom that produced Wisdom; for "I was that" says He, "wherein He delighted."⁷³⁷ Christ is truth; but "blessed," says He, "is the God of truth."

Notes

734
. [For rhema, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.]
735
Ex Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn., 4. 25. [P. 94, notes 1, 2, infra.]
736
. [For rhema, see vol. ii. p. 15, this series.]
737
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.