Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. I — Section 218
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And he was obviously deceived in the same way regarding the earth and heaven and man ; for he supposes that there are " ideas " of these. For as Moses wrote thus, " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," and then sub- joins this sentence, "And the earth was invisible and unfashioned," he thought that it was the pre- existent earth which was spoken of in the words, "The earth was," because Moses said, "And the earth was invisible and unfashioned ; " and he thought that the earth, concerning which he says, " God created the heaven and the earth," was that earth which…
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