All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
Or thus:, the Word indeed was in the beginning, but it may be that He was not before the beginning. But what says he; All things were made by him. He is infinite by Whom everything, which is, was made: and since all things were made by Him, time is likewise.
Or thus; That all things were made by him, is pronouncing too much, it maybe said. There is an Unbegotten Who is made of none, and there is the Son Himself begotten from Him Who is Unbegotten. The Evangelist however again implies the Author, when he speaks of Him as Associated; saying, without Him was not any thing made. This, that nothing was made without Him, I understand to mean the Son’s not being alone, for ‘by whom’ is one thing, ‘not without whom another.
