Nemesius of Emesa
4th century · AD 390 · Eastern & Byzantine · 6 passages
Background on Nemesius of Emesa
In his own words on Genesis
- Genesis 1:1
Even if it is granted that the God of all things followed an order [in the creation], he is shown to be God and Creator and to have brought all things into being out of nothing.
ON THE NATURE OF MAN 26
- Genesis 6:1-2
Of the incorporeal beings, only angels fell away, and not all of them, but some only, that inclined to things below and set their desire on things of earth, withdrawing themselves from their relations with things above, even from God.
ON THE NATURE OF MAN 58
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