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.