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5.  This Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is not circumscribed in any place S. Aug. in Ps. lxxv. 6:  Si in aliquo loco esset, non esset Deus.  Sermo 342:  Deus habitando continet non continetur.  Origen, c. Cels. vii. 34:  “God is of too excellent a nature for any place:  He holds all things in His power, and is Himself not confined by anything whatever.”  Compare the quotation from Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia, in the note on Cat. vi. 8., nor is He less than the heaven; but the heavens are the works of His fingers Ps. viii. 3., and the whole earth is held in His grasp Is. xl. 12.:  He is in all things and around all.  Think not that the sun is brighter than He See Cat. xv. 3, and note there., or equal to Him:  for He who at first formed the sun must needs be incomparably greater and brighter.  He foreknoweth the things that shall be, and is mightier than all, knowing all things and doing as He will; not being subject to any necessary sequence of events, nor to nativity, nor chance, nor fate; in all things perfect, and equally possessing every absolute form ἰδέαν.  Cyril uses the word in the Platonic sense, as in the next sentence he adopts the formula, which Plato commonly uses in describing the “idea:”  ἀεὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχειν.  Phaed. 78 c. of virtue, neither diminishing nor increasing, but in mode and conditions ever the same; who hath prepared punishment for sinners, and a crown for the righteous.

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