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Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

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XV. I am astonished at your requiring exactitude in Scripture, <strong>and</strong> arguing that there<br />

is something forced in the diction of the interpretation which gives the meaning of the original,<br />

but does not exactly render what is meant by the Hebrew word. Yet I must not carelessly<br />

pass by the question started by an enquiring mind. At the creation of the world, birds<br />

of the air <strong>and</strong> the fishes of the sea had the same origin; 2648 for both kinds were produced<br />

from the water. 2649 <strong>The</strong> reason is that both have the same characteristics. <strong>The</strong> latter swim<br />

in the water, the former in the air. <strong>The</strong>y are therefore mentioned together. <strong>The</strong> form of<br />

expression is not used without distinction, but of all that lives in the water it is used very<br />

properly. <strong>The</strong> birds of the air <strong>and</strong> the fishes of the sea are subject to man; <strong>and</strong> not they<br />

alone, but all that passes through the paths of the sea. For every water-creature is not a fish,<br />

as for instance the sea monsters, whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, even sea-horses, sea-dogs,<br />

saw-fish, sword-fish, <strong>and</strong> sea-cows; <strong>and</strong>, if you like, sea nettles, cockles <strong>and</strong> all hard-shelled<br />

creatures of whom none are fish, <strong>and</strong> all pass through the paths of the sea; so that there are<br />

three kinds, birds of the air, fishes of the sea, <strong>and</strong> all water-creatures which are distinct from<br />

fish, <strong>and</strong> pass through the paths of the sea.<br />

XVI. Naaman was not a great man with the Lord, but with his lord; that is, he was one<br />

of the chief princes of the King of the Syrians. 2650 Read your Bible carefully, <strong>and</strong> you will<br />

find the answer to your question there.<br />

2648 Ps. viii. 8.<br />

2649 Gen. i. 20 <strong>and</strong> 21.<br />

2650 2 Kings v. 1.<br />

To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons.<br />

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