Anf-03 v.iv.iii.v Pg 3
Rev. xxii. 15.
and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions. These are the bones of contention, which you are perpetually gnawing! If God is good, and prescient of the future, and able to avert evil, why did He permit man, the very image and likeness of Himself, and, by the origin of his soul, His own substance too, to be deceived by the devil, and fall from obedience of the law into death? For if He had been good, and so unwilling that such a catastrophe should happen, and prescient, so as not to be ignorant of what was to come to pass, and powerful enough to hinder its occurrence, that issue would never have come about, which should be impossible under these three conditions of the divine greatness. Since, however, it has occurred, the contrary proposition is most certainly true, that God must be deemed neither good, nor prescient, nor powerful. For as no such issue could have happened had God been such as He is reputed—good, and prescient, and mighty—so has this issue actually happened, because He is not such a God. In reply, we must first vindicate those attributes in the Creator which are called in question—namely, His goodness and foreknowledge, and power. But I shall not linger long over this point2762 2762 Articulo.
for Christ’s own definition2763 2763
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxxiii Pg 22.1, Sketches v Pg 9.3
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 22
VERSE (15) - Re 9:20,21; 21:8,27 1Co 6:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Eph 5:3-6 Col 3:6
