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Theodotus

Section 2

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Author: Theodotus

II. “Blessed art Thou, who lookest on the abysses

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as

Thou

sittest

on

the

cherubim

,

”

says

Daniel

,

in

agreement

with

Enoch

,

who

said

,

“

And

I

saw

all

sorts

of

matter

.

”

For

the

abyss

,

which

is

in

its

essence

boundless

,

is

bounded

by

the

power

of

God

.

These

material

essences

then

,

from

which

the

separate

genera

and

their

species

are

produced

,

are

called

abysses

;

since

you

would

not

call

the

water

alone

the

abyss

,

although

matter

is

allegorically

called

water

,

the

abyss

.

Notes

4
[See vol. vi., this series, note 9, p. 147.]