The sources of Adversus Hermogenem

1. Genesis Moses 2 authority 2 citations · 7 passages

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   Genesis wording is invoked to show the name God preceded the name Lord.

   But Matter is nowhere, while this earth — that is, the one before our eyes — I see, I enjoy, from the time it ceased to be invisible and rough.

2. Gospel of John John the Evangelist 2 authority 2 citations

   adversus hermogenem 2 passages anchored here

   Gospel wording is invoked to close the identification of the Son with God.

   But if the same Wisdom is the Word of God — in the sense of Wisdom, and without which nothing was made, as also nothing was disposed without Wisdom — what kind of thing is it that, for the Son of God, the only-begotten and first-begotten Word, anything should have been more ancient than the Father, and in this way surely more nobly born?

3. Isaiah Isaiah the prophet 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

   adversus hermogenem 5 passages anchored here

   Prophetic oracle wording is repeatedly invoked to support God's sole and unaided authorship.

   Or by what means, he says, even though Matter be such, is there preserved to God both his authority and his substance, by which he is the sole and first author, and is reckoned Lord of all?

4. Proverbs Solomon 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

   adversus hermogenem 3 passages anchored here

   Wisdom literature is extended into an argument identifying Wisdom with the Son.

   Let Hermogenes therefore acknowledge that for this reason too the Wisdom of God is proclaimed born and founded — lest we should believe anything unborn and unfounded except God alone.

5. Psalms David 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   adversus hermogenem 4 passages anchored here

   Psalm wording is quoted to support arguments about divine sonship and grace.

   and, God stood in the assembly of gods — but by his grace, not by our own property, because he alone it is who makes gods.

6. Amos Amos 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus hermogenem

   Amos is named directly as source of the quoted line.

   Of the Spirit likewise Amos:

7. Daniel Daniel 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus hermogenem

   Daniel is cited to support the claim that God is everywhere and praised even by inanimate things.

   — that he was far from it whom we believe to be everywhere and everywhere to appear, to whom even inanimate and incorporeal things sing praises in Daniel?

8. Epistle to the Romans the Apostle Paul 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus hermogenem

   The apostle is quoted on God's invisible things being perceived through creation and on the unsearchable depth of his wisdom.

   But these are his invisible things, which, according to the apostle, from the foundation of the world are perceived through the things he made — not some Matter or other, but his own sensible attributes.

9. Jeremiah Jeremiah 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus hermogenem

   Jeremiah is quoted to support the claim that God created by his own strength and understanding, not by mere appearing.

   For thus too Jeremiah commends him:

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

adversus hermogenem 9 sources

Apocalypse of John · Gospel (eschatological saying) · Stoic doctrine of Matter · Stoic doctrine of divine immanence · account of Silenus and Midas · doctrine of Matter · teaching on Matter · the writings of the apostles · the writings of the prophets