Tatian (110-172)

Fragments

Translated by J. E. Ryland

Fragment 7

But Tatian, not understanding that the expression “Let there be” is not always precative but sometimes imperative, most impiously imagined concerning God, who said “Let there be light,” that He prayed rather than commanded light to be, as if, as he impiously thought, God was in darkness.—ORIGEN: De Orat.

Fragment 6

Fragment 8