Refutation of Proclus · §4 · Procopius of Gaza

The completed sensible world and the final procession

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Procopius is distinguishing the already-completed universal procession of the generated world from the particular works that continue until the common consummation.

For in six days the whole sensible world was completed, and on the seventh day God rested from all His works. And no longer is any procession of another world still expected to be completed at all, at the consummation of the present age. In its particular aspect, however, it is still being worked, as was said by the Savior: "My Father is working until now, and I am working" (John 5:17). Yet this too will certainly cease at the common consummation. Then there will be another procession, in which God will be all in all (1 Corinthians 15:28), and all things will return to Him—the transformation of all things, and the change from corruption to incorruption.

Greek

Ἐν ἓξ γὰρ ἡμέραις σύμπας ὁ

αἰσθητὸς συμπεπλήρωται κόσμος· ἐν δὲ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ κατέπαυσεν ὁ Θεὸς ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ· καὶ οὐκέτι πρόοδος ἄλλου κόσμου καὶ ἔτι προσδοκᾶται πάμπαν συντελεσθῆναι, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ παρόντος αἰῶνος συντέλειαν· κατὰ δὲ τὸ κατὰ μέρος, ἕτι μὲν ἐνεργεῖται καθὰ εἴρηται τῷ Σωτῆρι· "ὁ Πατήρ μου ἕως ἄρτι ἐργάζεται, κἀγὼ ἐργάζομαι·" πεπαύσεται δὲ πάντως καὶ ἡ κατὰ τὴν κοινὴν συντέλειαν· καὶ ἄλλη τηνικαῦτα πρόοδος ἔσται, καθ' ἣν ἔσται ὁ Θεὸς τὰ πάντα ἐν πᾶσι· καὶ πάντα πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπιστρέψουσιν, ἡ τῶν ὅλων μεταστοιχείωσις, καὶ ἐκ φθορᾶς εἰς ἀφθαρσίαν μεταποίησις.