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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1.
1. THE DOCTRINE OF HERMOGENES AND ITS REFUTATION
BY TERTULLIAN 		3
2.
2. ANALYSIS 13
3.
3. MANUSCRIPTS, EDITIONS, AND TRANSLATIONS 17
TEXT
FOREWORD: WHO IS HERMOGENES? 26
THE BASIC ARGUMENTS OF HERMOGENES 27
REFUTATION OF HERMOGENES CONCEPTION OF MATTER 31
HIS NOTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER IS UNTEN-
ABLE ON LOGICAL GROUNDS 		31
A.
MATTER AS EQUAL WITH GOD 31
B.
MATTER AND EVIL 39
POSITIVE PROOF FROM SCRIPTURE FOR A CREATION
OUT OF NOTHING 		48
HERMOGENES MISINTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE IN
SUPPORT OF HIS NOTION OF MATTER 		51
a.
GENESIS 1.1 51
EXCURSUS: THE ASSUMPTION THAT SCRIPTURE SHOULD
HAVE MADE EXPLICIT AIENTION OF A CREATION
OUT OF NOTHING IS GRATUITOUS 		55
b.
GENESIS 1.2a 57
c.
GENESIS 1.2b 66
FURTHER POSITIVE PROOF FOR A CREATION OUT OF
NOTHING 		71
HERMOGENES' NOTION OF THE CONDITION OF MATTER IS
CONTRADICTORY AND ABSURD 		73

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Treatise against Hermogenes. Contributors: J. H. Waszink - transltr, Tertullian - author. Publisher: Newman Press. Place of Publication: Westminster, MD. Publication Year: 1956. Page Number: v.
    
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