Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 04 — Chapter 12.--Manichæan Subterfuge.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 4
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25. For this gives rise to the question, which used to throw us into great perplexity even when we were your zealous disciples, nor could we find any answer,--what the race of darkness would have done to God, supposing He had refused to fight with it at the cost of such calamity to part of Himself. For if God would not have suffered any loss by remaining quiet, we thought it hard that we had been sent to endure so much. Again, if He would have suffered, His nature cannot have been incorruptible, as it behoves the nature of God to be. Sometimes the answer was, that it was not for the sa…
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