The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching 44

Irenaeus · The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, translated by J. Armitage Robinson (SPCK, 1920)

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For it is necessary that, things that are made should have the beginning of their making from some great cause; and the beginning of all things is God. For He Himself was not made by any, and by Him all things were made. And therefore it is right first of all to believe that there is One God, the Father, who made and fashioned all things, and made what was not that it should be, and who, containing all things, alone is uncontained. Now among all things is this world of ours, and in the world is man: so then this world also was formed by God.