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It’s Monstrous To Think There’s A ‘Before’ Or ‘After’ In God
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It’s Monstrous To Think There’s A ‘Before’ Or ‘After’ In God
MHFM: This is an interesting quote from St. Gregory of Nyssa, in which he condemns the notion that any ‘before’ or ‘after’ exists in God. He considers the position that God has a beginning to be ‘monstrous’. The same truth is of course repeated by many fathers. Nevertheless, his statement is worth noting because many Eastern ‘Orthodox’ actually hold (the monstrous heresy) that in God there are certain ‘uncreated energies’ that have a beginning.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius, Book 1, Chap. 26: “The Divine nature is a stranger to these special marks in the creation: It leaves beneath itself the sections of time, the 'before' and the 'after,' and the ideas of space: in fact 'higher' cannot properly be said of it at all. Every conception about that uncreated Power is a sublime principle, and involves the idea of what is proper in the highest degree.… the everlastingness of the Son is included, along with the idea of His [eternal] birth, in the Father’s ungeneracy; and that, if any interval were to be imagined dividing the two, that same interval would fix a beginning for the life of the Almighty; a monstrous supposition.”
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