SECTION VII

And what must we say concerning this? For the Word of God Itself extols the fact that He is dissimilar, and of the same rank with none; as “different” even from everything, and, what is more paradoxical, says there is nothing that is similar to Him. Yet the expression is not contrary to the similarity towards Him, for the same things are both similar to God, and dissimilar—the former as regards the received imitation of the inimitable, the latter as regards the dependence of the things caused upon the cause, and their being inferior in degrees, endless and incalculable.