Chapter

 1   2|       not follow~that unless a thing is not seen it cannot be
 2   2|      hope. For if a man sees a thing, why does he hope for it? ~
 3   2|       future, this is the same thing as hoping for it.~What,
 4   3|     Still, each single created thing is~good, and taken as a
 5   4|        however insignificant a thing may be, the good which is
 6   4|       be destroyed without the thing itself being destroyed.
 7   4|       to praise~an uncorrupted thing, and if it were indeed an
 8   4|        indeed an incorruptible thing which could not be destroyed,~
 9   4|       praise. When, however, a thing is corrupted, its ~corruption
10   4|      good. As long, then, as a thing is being corrupted, there
11   4|     without also consuming the thing itself. Every actual entity [
12   4|     when corrupted. Whenever a thing is consumed by~corruption,
13   4|        there is some evil in a thing, its ~good is defective
14   4|     then ~say that a defective thing is bad, it would seem to
15   4|     cannot coexist in a single thing. Nevertheless, while no
16   4|      without the~good, or in a thing that is not a good. On the
17   4|    other source whence an evil thing can come to be. If this
18   4|     case, then, in so far as a thing is an entity, it is unquestionably
19   5|       mislead. If it~is a good thing to understand the causes
20   5|      as when one man knows one thing and another man~knows something
21   5|        morals.~30 This sort of thing happened to us once, when
22   5|            for there is such a thing as a fortunate mistake which
23   5|   since the fitting and proper thing would~be to be able to say,
24   6|     who ~calls adultery a good thing may be rightly accused by
25   6|     this is undoubtedly a good thing. ~Moreover, he calls adultery
26   6|        that error is not a bad thing, nor that it is a positively
27   6|        it is a positively good thing. I speak only of ~the evil
28   6|       affairs, is always a bad thing. For who,~except in error,
29   6|        were certain? It is one thing to judge a man good who
30   6|     error. It is quite another thing not to suffer harm from
31   6|       harmful to us. It is one thing~to suppose that this particular
32   6|       not. It is quite another thing that,~from this error -
33   6|    this error - which is a bad thing - something good actually
34   7|      questions, to mistake one thing for another, is not to be
35   7|      vision and~so mistook one thing for something else. In his
36   7| suppose that there is any such thing as a lie that is not a sin,
37  12|       would dare to say such a thing? There is no need to show
38  12|      be~called the son of that thing. Let us pass over the fact
39  12|         40. Wherefore, since a thing may be "born" of something
40  15|            would mean the~same thing as, "Praise him, all his
41  19|  someone else. It is a smaller thing to wish well or even to
42  21|     yet sternly forbids such a thing outside the Church, it is~
43  23|        the motions of a living thing? To deny, for ~example,
44  23|    parts of the body. The~main thing is that the providence of
45  24|       good, still it is a good thing that not only~good things
46  26|      other, who wills the same thing that~God willeth. There
47  26|       latter did the very same thing, he worked~through them
48  28|     man, or - what is the same thing - in himself. ~
49  32|        these is, "It is a good thing for a man not to touch a~