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Chapter
XLVII.
For Scripture testifies, in regard to those who
have a knowledge of those things of which Celsus speaks, and who
profess a philosophy founded on these principles, that they,
“when they knew God, glorified Him not as God, neither were
thankful, but became vain in their imaginations;” and
notwithstanding the bright light of knowledge with which God had
enlightened them, “their foolish heart” was carried away,
and became “darkened.”4791
Thus we
may see how those who accounted themselves wise gave proofs of great
folly, when, after such grand arguments delivered in the schools on God
and on things apprehended by the reason, they “changed the glory
of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping
things.”4792
As, then,
they lived in a way unworthy of the knowledge which they had received
from God, His providence leaving them to themselves, they were given
“up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts to
dishonour their own bodies,”4793
in
shamelessness and licentiousness, because they “changed the truth
of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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