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The Creator vs the Created
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heaven, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars and all the world of heaven, having been led astray, you will worship them. But as he is forbidden to worship these, so also to the other creatures, even if one should happen to be highly exalted. As also has been said before, it is proper to confirm that it is not the creature but the Creator who is to be worshipped.
Greek οὐρανόν, καὶ ἰδὼν τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην καὶ τοὺς 45 ἀστέρας καὶ πάντα τὸν κόσμον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πλανηθεὶς προσκυνήσῃς αὐτοῖς. ὡς δὲ τούτοις προσκυνεῖν κεκώλυται, οὕτω καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις κτίσμασι, κἄν τινα ὑπεραναβεβηκότα τυγχάνῃ. ὡς καὶ ἔμπροσθεν εἴρηται, διαβεβαιοῦσθαι προσήκει οὐ κτίσμα ἀλλὰ κτίστην εἶναι τὸν
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About this text A few lines on Hebrews 1 by Didymus the Blind: all creation, the angels included, worships Christ, and since Scripture forbids the worship of a creature, Christ is the Creator, who also took created flesh.
Didymus the Blind (c. 313–c. 398) is the author of this fragment on Hebrews. It is not Severian's fragments on that letter.
He argues that if all creation worships Christ, Christ is not a creature. The fragment then speaks of Christ's union with created flesh.
A reader needs the line in which the angels worship the Son, and the difference between the Creator and a creature. The citations use the old names of the biblical books.
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