On Pascha · §1.25

Beginning and first

In the making of the world it is said at once at the opening: "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth." For Scripture, knowing a distinction of "first" and "beginning," does not say: "He made first."

Greek

Ἐν τῇ κοσμοποιίᾳ εὐ[θέω]ς κατὰ τὴν εἰσβολὴν λέγε[ται]· "Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησ[ε]ν ὁ θ(εὸ)ς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τ[ὴν] γῆν." Διαστο[λ]ὴν γὰ[ρ εἰ]δυίας τῆς γραφῆ[ς π]ρώ[του] καὶ ἀρχῆ[ς], οὐ λέγε[ι]· "Πρώτην ἐ]ποίησεν"·