when once the truth has been unsettled? Why did not the Evangelist say, that He was made from things that were not, as Paul declares of all things, when he says, “Who calleth those things which be not as though they were”; but says, “Was in the beginning”? (Rom. 4:17.) This is contrary to that; and with good reason. For God neither is made,1 nor has anything older; these are words of the Greeks.2 Tell me this too: Would you not say, that the Creator beyond all comparison excels His works? Yet since