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Chapter
LXVI.
Celsus in the next place, as if he were able to
tell certain secrets regarding the origin of evils, but chose rather to
keep silence, and say only what was suitable to the multitude,
continues as follows: “It is sufficient to say to the
multitude regarding the origin of evils, that they do not proceed from
God, but cleave to matter, and dwell among mortal things.”
It is true, certainly, that evils do not proceed from God; for
according to Jeremiah, one of our prophets, it is certain that
“out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and
good.”3968
| 3968 Cf. Lam. iii. 38. [In the Authorized Version and in
the Vulgate the passage is interrogative. S.] | But to
maintain that matter, dwelling among mortal things, is the cause of
evils, is in our opinion not true. For it is the mind of each
individual which is the cause of the evil which arises in him, and this
is evil (in the abstract);3969
while the actions
which proceed from it are wicked, and there is, to speak with accuracy,
nothing else in our view that is evil. I am aware, however, that
this topic requires very elaborate treatment, which (by the grace of
God enlightening the mind) may be successfully attempted by him who is
deemed by God worthy to attain the necessary knowledge on this
subject.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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