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Fragment 6

God, in that He is immeasurable and Creator of the world and...

God,1 in that He is immeasurable and Creator of the world and Almighty, by His Will immeasurable and creative of the world and Almighty, and by a new result, mightily and efficaciously caused that the whole fulness of those things which have been born, should come to the birth, when before they were not; whatever namely does not fall under the power of sight, and that which is subject to sight. And therefore He contains them all and brings them to their own proper end unto which they were raised up and born, which is in no wise changed into other than what it was before by nature. For this belongs to the operation of God, not merely to go forward into infinity of mind2, or even to outpass understanding3, reason and speech, time place and all age, but also to overpass essence and fulness or perfection.


  1. From an unknown work 

  2. sensus 

  3. mentem