But one Hermogenes himself also being desirous of saying something, asserted that God made all things out of matter coeval with Himself, and subject to His design. For Hermogenes [1058] held it to be an impossibility that God should make the things that were made, except out of existent things. Footnotes: [1058] Cruice considers that Theodoret has taken his account (Hær. Fab., i. 19) from this tenth book of The Refutation. |