CONTRA FATUM

"the created and uncreate are as diametrically opposed to each other as their names are" CE 1.1.52?, p. 81)

"For it is not possible for anything which was created or is created not to have its being either in time or space." (GNO I.1.370)

“ Knowing, then, how widely the Divine nature differs from our own, let us quietly remain within our proper limits.” (Gregory NPNF p. 260, GNO, 95)

”Thus the whole created order is unable to get out of itself through a comprehensive vision, but remains continually enclosed within itself, and whatever it beholds, it is looking at itself. And even if it somehow thinks it is looking at something beyond itself, that which it sees outside itself has no being. One may struggle to surpass or transcend diastemic conception (διάστηματικην εννοιαν) by the understanding of the created universe, but he does not transcend. For in every object it conceptually discovers, it always comprehends the diastema in the being of the apprehended object, and diastema is nothing other than creation itself.” (In Eccl. GNO V, 412, 6-14)

”When he [Eunomius] pronounces that the life of the Father is prior to that of the Son, he places a certain interval (διαστήματί) between the two; now, he must mean, either that this interval is infinite (ἄπειρόν), or that it is included within fixed limits (τισι πέρασι). But the principle of an intervening mean will not allow him to call it infinite; he would annul thereby the very conception of Father and Son and the thought of anything connecting them, as long as this infinite were limited on neither side, with no idea of a Father cutting it short above, nor that of a Son checking it below. The very nature of the infinite is, to be extended in either direction, and to have no bounds of any kind. […] What I say, then, is this: that this view of theirs will bring us to the conclusion that the Father is not from everlasting, but from a definite point in time.” (Contra Eunomium, TLG 2017.030, 344)