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Had he never created the world, He would have the same worth,
since He can never be of greater worth. For otherwise
He would not be God, if He did not know everything, and see and hear everything,
whatever it might be. And if it were not so He would be
deficient and lacking power in some way. And so He would be
a mortal man, but His nature is not such. For He is
God entirely, without beginning and without end. To Him nothing
is old or new. And so He is always
beauteous and fresh. And all things are His; by right
and by nature they go from Him and return to Him. For from Him all things
proceed and have movement. They return to Him by holding to the right
path. And He never has care for any evil, for His goodness
is always wholly pure, clean, and bright with no manner of evil. Certainly all
evil things are contrary to Him, and therefore it is absolutely necessary that
they are put beneath Him and all His good things. For they
are nothing but dung and excrement. So it is fitting for them to descend to the depths.
And contrariwise, the good things must go before the sovereign
Creator who is bright, pure, and clean. And the sins which are
obscure, horrible, and dark more than any others leave the
good which is around God and fall below. For so it should be
by reason and nature. Just as