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The concrete Hebrew mind, foreign to abstractions, says Anderson, could neither conceive of Yahweh creating things “out of nothingness,” nor “out of chaos,” the realm of mythic Behemot and Leviathan, of disorder and cataclysm, which absolutely opposed Yahweh’s munificent and divinely decreed, ordered creation (Gen.31).61 And neither could the abstract minds of Hellenism and medieval theologians and philosophers comprehend how He, the all-good, could be conceived to create abyss and chasm, too, out of the Wise Word. This is why Saint Agustin sets out to defend God’s munificent Divine Plan above the flaws of reason and all the ill things it can conceive.62 A Divine Plan whose ultimate beneficent aim expands beyond our limited understandings of His dealings and workings in the cosmos and in the world. A Divine Plan willed by His omnipresent wise Word encompassing all of salvation history, beginning with His omnific Word creating all things out of nothing, and ending with Christ’s salvation.
It is true Yahweh does not need matter to create the cosmos,63 but some may argue He does need the Grecian Idea or Vision of the things-in-themselves first, whether within (a Philonism) or without Himself (a Platonism), before He creates the cosmos, if any sense of Stoicism’s rational sovereignty, as rule, measure and proportion, is to be ascribed to His creation at all.
61 Anderson, B.W. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “Creation.” Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume 1. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. 726. Please see also footnote 90.
62 San Agustín. Confesiones. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 2001. 127.
63 He needs only clay to create Adam, and only His living breath, to give Adam life.
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