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Chapter LV.—The Two
Kingdoms.
To this the old man answered: “But why
was that prince made who delights in evil?826
| 826 [On the creation of
the evil one, see book x. 3, etc., and the discussion with Simon in
Homily XIX. 2–18.—R.] | And from what was he made?
Or was he not made?” Aquila said: “The
treatment of that subject belongs to another time; but that you may not
go away altogether without an answer to this, I shall give a few hints
on this subject also. God, foreseeing all things before the
creation of the world, knowing that the men who were to be would some
of them indeed incline to good, but others to the opposite, assigned
those who should choose the good to His own government and His own
care, and called them His peculiar inheritance;827
but He gave over the government of those who should turn to evil to
those angels who, not by their substance, but by opposition, were
unwilling to remain with God, being corrupted by the vice of envy and
pride. Those, therefore, he made worthy princes of worthy
subjects; yet he so delivered them over to those angels, that they have
not the power of doing what they will against them, unless they
transgress the bounds assigned to them from the beginning. And
this is the bound assigned, that unless one first do the will of the
demons, the demons have no power over him.”
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