Saturday, July 01, 2006

AE 631 - in the evils themselves are the evils of punishment

AE 631
...we should pray to God not to lead us into temptations;
this is said because it appears as if God so leads,
and yet God leads no one into temptations;
again, it is said that God is angry, punishes, casts into hell,
brings evil upon the wicked, and many other like things,
and yet God is never angry, never punishes or casts into hell,
nor does He at all do evil to any one,
but the wrongdoer himself does this to himself by his evils,
for in the evils themselves are the evils of punishment.

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