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Book XII
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Eunomius Again Speaks of the Son as Lord and God, and Maker of All Creation Intelligible and Sensible, Having Received From the Father the Power and the Commission for Creation, Being Entrusted With the Task of Creation as if He Were an Artizan Commissioned by Some One Hiring Him, and Receiving His Power of Creation as a Thing Adventitious, Ab Extra, as a Result of the Power Allotted to Him in Accordance With Such and Such Combinations and Positions of the Stars, as Destiny Decrees Their Lot in Life to Men at Their Nativity. Thus, Passing by Most of What Eunomius Had Written, He Confutes His Blasphemy That the Maker of All Things Came Into Being in Like Manner With the Earth and With Angels, and That the Subsistence of the Only-begotten Differs Not at All From the Genesis of All Things, and Reproaches Him With Reverencing Neither the Divine Mystery nor the Custom of the Church, nor Following in His Attempt to Discover Godliness Any Teacher of Pious Doctrine, but Manichæus, Colluthus, Arius, Aetius, and Those Like to Them, Supposing That Christianity in General is Folly, and That the Customs of the Church and the Venerable Sacraments Are a Jest, Wherein He Differs in Nothing From the Pagans, Who Borrowed From Our Doctrine the Idea of a Great God Supreme Over All. So, Too, This New Idolater Preaches in the Same Fashion, and in Particular That Baptism is “Into an Artificer and Creator,” Not Fearing the Curse of Those Who Cause Addition or Diminution to the Holy Scriptures. And He Closes His Book With Showing Him to Be Antichrist
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This Twelfth Book Gives a Notable Interpretation of the Words of the Lord to Mary, “Touch Me Not, for I Am Not Yet Ascended to My Father.”