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Book IX
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Then, After Showing That the Person of the Only-begotten and Maker of Things Has No Beginning, as Have the Things That Were Made by Him, as Eunomius Says, but That the Only-begotten is Without Beginning and Eternal, and Has No Community, Either of Essence or of Names, With the Creation, but is Co-existent With the Father From Everlasting, Being, as the All-excellent Wisdom Says, “the Beginning and End and Midst of the Times,” and After Making Many Observations on the Godhead and Eternity of the Only-begotten, and Also Concerning Souls and Angels, and Life and Death, He Concludes the Book
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The Ninth Book Declares That Eunomius' Account of the Nature of God is, up to a Certain Point, Well Stated. Then in Succession He Mixes up With His Own Argument, on Account of its Affinity, the Expression From Philo's Writings, “God is Before All Other Things, Which Are Generated,” Adding Also the Expression, “He Has Dominion Over His Own Power.” Detesting the Excessive Absurdity, Gregory Strikingly Confutes It