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CHAPTER XIII, 90-112.
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102. I also ask this, to what was it owing that it was necessary for him to make himself comfortable and reposing on the seventh day? 103. When the delay and trouble in his creation and production of the world was merely so much as that he spoke thus: “Thou shalt arise,' (104) how are those days accounted for by him, so that it was necessary to make him reposing whose trouble is recounted ? 105. For if thou shalt arise' were spoken by him at once, that is his trouble, and he ought to become comfortable immediately.
106. Again I ask this, that is, for what purpose and cause is Adam produced by him, together with Eve", (107) so that while they practise his will, the purpose of it is not so presented by him that they shall not turn away from the performance of his desire ? 108. For when it is known by him, before the fact that they will not be listening to his command, and yet they are finally produced by him, that shows that for him now to become exhausted, and to indulge in wrath about them, is unreasonable, (109) because it is evident that the Lord himself was not fully proceeding with that which is desirable for his own will, and is manifestly an opponent and adversary to his own will. 110. If they are not understood by him before the fact, and it is not even known by him that they will not listen to his command, then he is ignorant and badly informed. II. If they say that his will itself was fornon-performance, why then is the command for performance given by him? 112. Also what is the sin in not performing lesser light to rule the night. ... And the evening and the morning were the fourth day' (Gen. i. 16, 19). See § 15.
The command mentioned in 8$ 19, 20.
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