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Contents 3 passages 1 Wisdom sits unshaken while made nature perishes 2 Perishing by the account of being made 3 Whatever is brought from non-being into being Author Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444 AD) — Bishop of Alexandria from 412. He led the case against Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus in 431, defending the title Mother of God and the single person of Christ, and wrote long commentaries on both Testaments.
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About this text Cyril of Alexandria died in 444 — later than the first three centuries of the church.
A few broken lines on Baruch 3:3, setting God's Wisdom, who stays unshaken, against made things, which are always perishing.
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Wisdom sits unshaken while made nature perishes §1
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1 Baruch says you are seated unto the age (Baruch 3:3). Made nature is always perishable in every time, and generated things have their measure in that frailty. But Wisdom, craftswoman and maker of all, sits — that is, she keeps unshaken continuance in sameness. Again: our sitting shows the unshakeable, established character of existence and of the continuance of the highest of all substances; but as for us…
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Perishing by the account of being made §2
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2 …to perish through the age — that is, to be perishable at every time, so far as the account of having been made reaches; if…
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Whatever is brought from non-being into being §3
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3 …it is true that everything in generation, and brought over from non-being into being, wholly and entirely…
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