The Word and the Immortality of the Soul<\/b><\/p>\n
Before the foundation of the world were we, who, because destined to be in Him, pre-existed in the eye of God before,\u2014we the rational creatures of the Word of God, on whose account we date from the beginning; for \u201cin the beginning was the Word.\u201d Well, inasmuch as the Word was from the first, He was and is the divine source of all things; but inasmuch as He has now assumed the name Christ, consecrated of old, and worthy of power, he has been called by me the New Song. This Word, then, the Christ, the cause of both our being at first (for He was in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now appeared as man, He alone being both, both God and man\u2014the Author of all blessings to us; by whom we, being taught to live well, are sent on our way to life eternal.<\/p>\n
–Exhortation to the Heathen Ch.1<\/p>\n
God is Justice<\/b><\/p>\n
For as the mirror is not evil to an ugly man because it shows him what like he is; and as the physician is not evil to the sick man because he tells him of his fever,\u2014for the physician is not the cause of the fever, but only points out the fever;\u2014so neither is He, that reproves, ill-disposed towards him who is diseased in soul. For He does not put the transgressions on him, but only shows the sins which are there; in order to turn him away from similar practices. So God is good on His own account, and just also on ours, and He is just because He is good. And His justice is shown to us by His own Word from there from above, whence the Father was. For before He became Creator He was God; He was good. And therefore He wished to be Creator and Father. And the nature of all that love was the source of righteousness\u2014the cause, too, of His lighting up His sun, and sending down His own Son. And He first announced the good righteousness that is from heaven, when He said, \u201cNo man knoweth the Son, but the Father; nor the Father, but the Son.\u201d This mutual and reciprocal knowledge is the symbol of primeval justice. Then justice came down to men both in the letter and in the body, in the Word and in the law, constraining humanity to saving repentance; for it was good.
\n— The Instructor Book I Ch.IX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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