Address of Tatian to the Greeks

and of the forms that are in matter; He is invisible, impalpable, being Himself the Father of both sensible and invisible things. Him we know from His creation, and apprehend His invisible power by His works.[10]

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

For how can the intellect be superior to the senses, when it is these which educate it for the discovery of various truths? It is a fact, that these truths are learned by means of palpable forms; in other words, invisible things are discovered by the help of visible ones, even as the apostle tells us in his epistle: "For the invisible things of Him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made; "[144]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book I

is guilty both of impudence and malignity: of impudence, in aspiring after a belief which is not due to him, and for which he has provided no foundation;[152]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

); and He had offenders in those wise and prudent ones who would not seek after God, although He was to be discovered in His so many and mighty works,[993]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

and indications (of His divinity),[752]

Tertullian Against Hermogenes

They are, however, His "invisible things," which, according to the apostle, "are from the creation of the world clearly seen by the things that are made;[476]

Origen Against Celsus Book III

dimly alluding, I think, to those who ascend from things of sense to those of the understanding, when he adds, "For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are Clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful."[155]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

and also to these, "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,"[305]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

s if to justify his faith in a resurrection, "How can they know God, except by the perception of the senses? "or, "How otherwise than through the senses can they gain any knowledge? "For it is not in any secret writings, perused only by a few wise men, but in such as are most widely diffused and most commonly known among the people, that these words are written: "The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made."[84]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly"-now the expression that which is unseemly signifies, according to these (Naasseni), the first and blessed substance, figureless, the cause of all figures to those things that are moulded into shapes,-"and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet."[30]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity "For the invisible things of Him," says the Apostle Paul," from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by those things which are made, even His eternal power and godhead; "[18]

Recognitions of Clement II

For to those who think aright, God is manifest even by the operations of the world which He hat made, using the evidence of His creation;[17]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

Now the blind see, when they see the world and from the exceeding great beauty of the things created they contemplate the Creator corresponding in greatness and beauty to them; and when they see clearly "the invisible things of God Himself from the creation of the world, which are perceived through the things that are made; "[194]

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