42. First of all, let them understand that if they
make the words “That which has been made” to refer to the
Godhead, they entangle themselves in the difficulties raised by the
Manichæans, for these people argue: “If that which has
been made in Him is life, then there is something which has not been
made in Him, and is death,” so that they may impiously bring in
two principles. But this teaching the Church condemns.