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The Acts Of The Disputation With The Heresiarch Manes by Archelaus

1 Archelaus said to Manes: Give us a statement now of the doctrines you promulgate.à

Archelaus said to Manes: Give us a statement now of the doctrines you promulgate. -- Thereupon the man, whose mouth was like an open sepulchre, began at once with a word of blasphemy against the Maker of all things, saying: The God of the Old Testament is the inventor of evil, who speaks thus of Himself: |I am a consuming fire.| -- But the sagacious Archelaus completely undid this blasphemy. For he said: If the God of the Old Testament, according to your allegation, calls Himself a fire, whose son is He who says, |I am come to send fire upon the earth?| If you find fault with one who says, |The Lord killeth and maketh alive,| why do you honour Peter, who raised Tabitha to life, but also put Sapphira to death? And if again, you find fault with the one because He has prepared a fire, why do you not find fault with the other, who says, |Depart from me into everlasting fire?| If you find fault with Him who says, |I, God, make peace, and create evil,| explain to us how Jesus says, |I came not to send peace, but a sword.| Since both persons speak in the same terms, one or other of these two things must follow: namely, either they are both good because they use the same language; or, if Jesus passes without censure though He speaks in such terms, you must tell us why you reprehend Him who employs a similar mode of address in the Old Testament.
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