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Chapter LIV.
Let us see, then, briefly what holy Scripture has to say
regarding good and evil, and what answer we are to return to the
questions, “How is it that God created evil?” and,
“How is He incapable of persuading and admonishing
men?” Now, according to holy Scripture, properly speaking,
virtues and virtuous actions are good, as, properly speaking, the
reverse of these are evil. We shall be satisfied with quoting on
the present occasion some verses from the thirty-fourth
Psalm, to the following
effect: “They that seek the Lord
shall not want any good thing. Come, ye children, hearken unto
me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth
many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and
thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do
good.”4550
Now, the
injunctions to “depart from evil, and to do good,” do not
refer either to corporeal evils or corporeal blessings,
as they are termed by some, nor to external things at all, but to
blessings and evils of a spiritual kind; since he who departs
from such evils, and performs such virtuous actions, will, as one who
desires the true life, come to the enjoyment of it; and as one loving
to see “good days,” in which the word of righteousness will
be the Sun, he will see them, God taking him away from this
“present evil world,”4551
and from those
evil days concerning which Paul said: “Redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.”4552
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