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Against Eunomius
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Then, Distinguishing Between Essence and Generation, He Declares the Empty and Frivolous Language of Eunomius to Be Like a Rattle. He Proceeds to Show That the Language Used by the Great Basil on the Subject of the Generation of the Only-begotten Has Been Grievously Slandered by Eunomius, and So Ends the Book
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The Fifth Book Promises to Speak of the Words Contained in the Saying of the Apostle Peter, but Delays Their Exposition. He Discourses First of the Creation, to the Effect That, While Nothing Therein is Deserving of Worship, Yet Men, Led Astray by Their Ill-informed and Feeble Intelligence, and Marvelling at its Beauty, Deified the Several Parts of the Universe. And Herein He Excellently Expounds the Passage of Isaiah, “I Am God, the First.”