Here I Athenagorus by calling Christ the Idea of all things, takes him for yethe Logos of the Platonist; & by saying that God had this Logos always in himself because he was rational from all eternity, makes Christ the inward reason & wisdom of the father, the λογος ενδιαφετος without wchwhich yethe father would be ασοφος & αλογος: & by calling him the first ofspring begotten of the father who was not made (or created out of nothing) but came out of yethe father as yethe Idea & energy of all things in order to Gods forming them out of the Chaoscreating the world makes him generated not from all eternity but in the beginning of yethe creation, by emission or projector o the internal Logos being then emitted or projected outwardly. For Athenag like the Ærms of the Gnosticks & Logos of yethe P Calapbarygians & Platonists. For Athenagoras had told ussaid before that the creator of the universalserm noster Beum lustum Conditor celebrats conditore illium universilatis, qui ingenitus ipse (ni erum generari petist quod est sed quod non est,) omnia Verbo suo creavit. He makes also the Holy Grail an emanation of the fathers ot a necessary & eternal emanation but a voluntary & temporary one sometimes flowing from yethe farther sometimes returning back to him as the rays of yethe sun are emitted from him & retur reflected back. to him. And of these three he makes an union wthwith a distintiondistinction of order, one

Of the very same opinion was Theophilus bishop of Antioch the Metropolis of the east, For in his second book to Autolycus he wrote thus Deus habens summ serononem ενδεαφετον internum in suis vesceribus