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Fragment number Vinzent 76
Klostermann 103
Ancient source used Eusebius, Against Marcellus 2.2; Ecclesiastical Theology 2.2 (partial), 2.11 (partial), 2.1 (partial), 2.3 (partial)
Modern edition M. Vinzent, Markell von Ankyra: Die Fragmente (Leiden, 1997).

Indeed before the entire creation there was a certain quiet, one can reasonable assume (hos eikos), since the Logos was (still) in God. For if Asterius believes that God is the maker of all things, clearly he will also agree with us that God has always existed, that he never had a beginning of his existence, and that everything came into being from him and came into being from nothing. Indeed I do not suppose he would believe someone saying that some things are uncreated, but clearly he is persuaded that both heaven and earth and everything in heaven and earth came into being through God. If now this were his belief, necessarily he would confess with us that except for God there was nothing else. Therefore the Logos had his own kind of glory as one who was in the Father.

Translated by Brandon Rogers under the supervision of Prof. Glen L. Thompson

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