| sich selbst ihr Gut , vom höheren,
| allen gemeinsamen, beseligenden Gut
| zum eigenen Selbst abgefallen. ...
fell{5}: but in pursuit towards the | 5. Spedding's footnote:This clause is
similitude of God's goodness or love | repeated in the margin, in the
(which is one thing, for love is nothing | transcriber's hand.
else but goodness put in motion or |
applied) neither man or spirit ever |
hath transgressed, or shall transgress.{6} | 6. similarly in: : I.M. Praefatio Sp.
| I,132, 19-22; AL Sp. III, 12 seq.
The angel of light that was, when he | (D.A. Sp. I, 742, 1 9 seq. (footnote
presumed before his fall, said within | taken from the French translation of
himself, I WILL ASCEND AND BE LIKE UNTO | Valerius Terminus by Francois Vert,
| Meridiens Klincksieck, 1986)
THE HIGHEST{7}; not God, but the highest. | 7. Isaiah 14, 14:
To be like to God in goodness, was no part | Authorized Version: I will ascend
of his emulation; knowledge, being in | above the heights of the clouds; I
creation an angel of light, was not the | will be like the most high.
want which did most solicit him; only |
because he was a minister he aimed at a |
supremacy; therefore his climbing or |
ascension was turned into a throwing down |
or precipitation. |
|
Man on the other side, when he was tempted |
before he fell, had offered unto him this |
suggestion, THAT HE SHOULD BE LIKE |
UNTO GOD{8}. But how? Not simply, but in | 8. Genesis 3, 5:
this part, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. For | Authorized Version: For God does know
being in his creation invested with | that in the day ye eat thereof, then