Thursday, May 19, 2011

II.1 chapter 9

Can you say more about the City of God?
Part of it are the holy angels. We do not know everything about them; the Bible does not have an explicit word when they were created (only that they are certainly created by God). But we can derive that they were created at the first day where it is said that God created the light, because they are said (the book of Job, chapter 38, verse 7) to have been present during the other works of creation.
They are the light not in themselves, but in God. Only if they depart from this light they become impure, as are all those who are called evil spirits. Therefore there is no other source of evil than deprivation of the good of God.

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