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CHAPTER XV, 50–72.
as it were ignorant, the father must be as it were just the same.
63. Observe this, too, that all the creatures and creation, and even his own adversary, being created and produced by him out of nothing, the executioners of his son are themselves deluded by him. 64. And if the sacred being himself created the executioners of his son, and even his own adversary, without a purpose and without a cause, (65) and the son was slain by them altogether with his knowledge, (66) that implies that it is now possible to be without doubt that the slayer of his son was he himself, (67) if he knew that when he produces a son they will then slay him, and in the end he produced him foolishly and unwisely. 68. If he did not know it, he is deficient in knowledge.
69. Again, observe this, that, if the sacred being created these creatures and creation out of nothing, and created and produced even his adversary similarly out of nothing, that implies that their nature ought to be one. 70. Now, why is not the adversary preserved in the same manner as the other creatures ? . 71. Another point is about the inconsistency of the statements derived from the scriptures of their high-priest?, (72) and that which he says that no one falls, nor anything from a tree, and no outcry arises in a districts, nor two birds fight together
that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father' (Mark xiii. 4, 32).
1 Literally "I produce.'
? In § 91 Paul is called 'their high-priest,' but the term may be here applied to any other writer of the Christian scriptures.
So in Sans., but the Pâz. of JE has merely ‘no district arises.'
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