XXIII. Fate, Astrology, etc 173
XXIV. Matter is not Uncreated, or the Cause of Evil 197
XXV. God's Foreknowledge, Predestination, etc. 208
XXVI. Scripture Blessings. What things are really "Good" and "Evil" 214
XXVII. The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart 224
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1. Philocalia = love of the beautiful. The word may be contrasted with Apeirocalia ----ignorance of the beautiful, want of taste, in pl. vulgarities.
2. Basil of Caesarea (329-379 A.D.); Gregory of Nazianzus ( d. 389 or 390 A.D.).
3. S. Greg. Ep. cxv.
4. Presbyter of Alexandria, A.D. 319. "Arianism was largely the result of a mental and moral temper fostered by the Greek schools of disputation, and began, as we learn from Socrates (i. 5), with this line of argument----What is true of human fatherhood is true of the relation between the Father and the Son: Hut the father's priority of existence is true of human fatherhood: Therefore it is true in regard to the Father and the Son: Therefore, once there was no Son: Therefore He was, at some very remote period, created by the Father. The petitio principii in the major premiss is a key to the whole heresy."----Bright's S. Leo, p. 139.
The Eunomians were a sect of Arians, so named from Eunomius, Bishop of Cyzicus in A.D. 360. They taught that the Son was "Only Begotten" in the sense "Begotten by God alone."
5. S. Cyr., Alex. Ep. xliv.
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