Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

RESURRECTION OF CULTURED HEATHENISM I 3 3superintendent, regulator, or judge, by whom everythingmust be distributed and governed."1To God accordingly, as Maker, Philo ascribes theabsolute knowledge of everything which He has made,and especially as the moral governor of man, theknowledge of His most secret thoughts. " To God, asdwelling in pure light, all things are visible, for He,penetrating into the very recesses of the soul, is ableto see transparently what is invisible to others, andby means of prescience and providence, His ownpeculiar excellencies, allows nothing to abuse itsliberty or exceed the range of His comprehension.For indeed there is with Him no uncertainty evenin the future; for there is nothing uncertain andnothing future to God. It is plain then h that theproducer must have knowledge of all that he hasproduced, the artificer of all that he has constructed,the governor of all that he governs. Now Father,Artificer, and Governor He is in truth of all thingsin heaven and the world. And whereas future thingsare overshadowed by the succession of time, longer orshorter, God is the maker of time also. . . . For theworld by its motion has made time, but He madethe world, and so with God there is nothing future,who has the very foundations of time subject to Him.For their life is not time, but the archetype and modelof time, eternity, and in eternity nothing is past, andnothing is future, but there is the present only."His goodness is as perfect as His power and Hiswisdom. His holiness is the pattern of all holiness." It is God who sows and plants all virtue upon earthin the mortal race, being an imitation and image of1 DC Mundi Opificio, sec. 2.2 " Quod Deus sit imiiiutabilis." Sec. 6, p. 72.