Alexander of Lycopolis, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manichaeans… (1885)
“ For if no man is wise, what of Manichæus himself? I pass over the fact that he not only calls others good, but he also says that they are able to make others such. But if one individual is entirely good, what prevents all from becoming good? For what is possible for one is possible also for all. ”
Alexander of Lycopolis, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manichaeans… (1885)
“ For thus they themselves who profess to be teachers of virtue would be objects of emulation for their purpose, and for their mode of life, and there would be great hopes that one day evils will cease, when all men have become wise. ”
Alexander of Lycopolis, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Of the Manichaeans… (1885)
“ But if discipline, and better instruction and diligence in acquiring virtue, make a man to become virtuous, let all become so, and that oft-repeated phrase of theirs, the unordered motion of matter, is made void. ”
