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  1 I    |             He knoweth or preferreth evil choosing the good.30They
  2 I    |              maketh peace and create evil";35and in another place, "
  3 I    |             in another place, "Shall evil befall a city, and the Lord
  4 I    |            not done it";36or again, "Evil is come down from the Lord
  5 I    |             of Jerusalem";37and, "An evil spirit from the Lord plagued
  6 I    |             tree partook of good and evil? And if God is also said
  7 VI   |        hinders all the working of an evil spirit, as the music of
  8 VI   |            of David laid to rest the evil spirit in Saul which was
  9 VIII |            the knowledge of good and evil, ye shall not eat of it:
 10 VIII |            the knowledge of good and evil, ye shall not eat of it:
 11 X    |              not bear because of the evil of your doings" ~1. If at
 12 XIV  |               the world lieth in the evil one," 237and have not realised
 13 XIV  |       orderly movements, "lie in the evil one." If, again, we study
 14 XVIII|        exercised to discern good and evil." Now, let me ask, could
 15 XXI  |               Resist not him that is evil";443and, "That every one
 16 XXI  |             soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also
 17 XXI  |            Pharaoh on account of his evil disposition, and the obedience
 18 XXI  |          have had experience of much evil. For as physicians, though
 19 XXI  | circumstances draws forth the secret evil, in order to cleanse him,
 20 XXI  |            would think little of the evil because it was soon cured,
 21 XXI  |           say, willing that which is evil and running after that which
 22 XXI  |          running after that which is evil. But, in fact, to will that
 23 XXI  |          fact, to will that which is evil and run after that which
 24 XXI  |              run after that which is evil, is not a thing indifferent.
 25 XXI  |            imply that the willing of evil, or the willing of good,
 26 XXI  |                if they who have done evil have so conducted themselves
 27 XXI  |              others, again, abide in evil, or, because their wickedness
 28 XXII |    delivering us out of this present evil world,531and from the rulers
 29 XXIII|           though it is indicative of evil. And I think that any one
 30 XXIV |           uncreated, or the cause of evil. From Book VII. of the Praeparatio
 31 XXIV |             moreover, contained even evil things, we must of necessity
 32 XXIV |             place of disorder and of evil, which does not seem to
 33 XXIV |            that God is the Author of evil, and in your determination
 34 XXIV |           that He is a receptacle of evil. If you told me that what
 35 XXIV |             as you say the origin of evil is the cause of such a supposition,
 36 XXIV |           inquire into the nature of evil. For once it is clear how
 37 XXIV |             For once it is clear how evil comes to exist, and, if
 38 XXIV |             that He was the cause of evil, there will, I think, be
 39 XXIV |            investigate the origin of evil; I will therefore go on
 40 XXIV |       briefly ask you, Do you regard evil things as substances, or
 41 XXIV |          discussion. ~Well, then, if evil is a quality of matter,
 42 XXIV |          will also be the Creator of evil. Since, then, we cannot
 43 XXIV |              making God the cause of evil, it seems to me superfluous
 44 XXIV |         should think the question of evil decided; but as we are making
 45 XXIV |            It seems clear to me that evil has a substantial existence,
 46 XXIV |              for I never see what is evil apart from substances. ~
 47 XXIV |               If you say that things evil are substances, I must examine
 48 XXIV |                And do you think that evil things are a man's actions? ~
 49 XXIV |            give it existence: and if evil things are a man's actions,
 50 XXIV |         begin to be, it follows that evil things are not substances.
 51 XXIV |           are not substances. But if evil things are substances, and
 52 XXIV |         substances, and murder is an evil, murder will be a substance;
 53 XXIV |       adultery, nor is any such like evil thing. But as the grammarian
 54 XXIV |             from what are considered evil things, though it is neither
 55 XXIV |         deity to be the cause of the evil which men do, he too, inasmuch
 56 XXIV |       inasmuch as he acts in men, is evil because of the evil which
 57 XXIV |               is evil because of the evil which he does. For the reason
 58 XXIV |             why he too is said to be evil, is that he is an author
 59 XXIV |              that he is an author of evil; and what a man does, is
 60 XXIV |             is from these the title "evil" is derived. If we were
 61 XXIV |              If you admit that these evil things are the man's actions,
 62 XXIV |           that he has the quality of evil, not from what he is as
 63 XXIV |            we said that he is called evil from the accidents of the
 64 XXIV |        medicine. And if every man is evil through his actions, and
 65 XXIV |               he himself began to be evil, and these evil things,
 66 XXIV |          began to be evil, and these evil things, too, had a beginning.
 67 XXIV |          this be so, the man was not evil when his wickedness began,
 68 XXIV |        wickedness began, nor can the evil attaching to him be unoriginate;
 69 XXIV |     qualities, and the qualities are evil, God will be the Author
 70 XXIV |            God will be the Author of evil. We are agreed, then, that
 71 XXIV |               and if I maintain that evil is an effluence of matter,
 72 XXIV |              may not be the cause of evil, but matter the cause of
 73 XXIV |          matter the cause of all the evil in the world. ~I am delighted
 74 XXIV |           likewise think that things evil are qualities of the substances? ~
 75 XXIV |          better. ~Well, then, if the evil things are qualities of
 76 XXIV |           inquire into the origin of evil. For the qualities did not
 77 XXIV |             God will be the cause of evil, because He changed qualities
 78 XXIV |             had the power to abolish evil He allowed it to remain
 79 XXIV |            part of the matter in its evil state, to the destruction
 80 XXIV |            order, it now partakes of evil. For if any one will carefully
 81 XXIV |              it had ho perception of evil; but now every part of it
 82 XXIV |             it has the perception of evil. Take man, for instance.
 83 XXIV |             natural participation in evil; but as soon as God made
 84 XXIV |             conscious of approaching evil; and what you say God intended
 85 XXIV |              say that the reason why evil was not stopped was that
 86 XXIV |           you will be affirming that evil is mightier than God, inasmuch
 87 XXVI |        question of things "good"and "evil"; that they partly depend
 88 XXVI |             things are "good," what "evil," some affirming that good
 89 XXVI |             a good thing, trouble an evil thing; while others identify "
 90 XXVI |          others identify "good" and "evil" with things dependent on
 91 XXVI |           virtuous actions, and that evil things are the vices and
 92 XXVI |            and tell us that good and evil things partly depend on
 93 XXVI |               and the contraries are evil things. And if, according
 94 XXVI |              is a something good and evil, and we must still look
 95 XXVI |           not, could not be good and evil; for they think that some
 96 XXVI |         external; and similarly with evil things. And in respect of
 97 XXVI |            good things, and three of evil; for while they allow that
 98 XXVI |            and vices are "good" and "evil," according to the recognised
 99 XXVI |         things external, are good or evil. And as regards virtues
100 XXVI |              plagues and diseases an evil thing, and health and bodily
101 XXVI |           will have it that good and evil things are bodily and external.
102 XXVI |           inasmuch as He deemed them evil things, bodily blindness,
103 XXVI |              and gave instead of the evil things which previously
104 XXVI |              devils and lunacy to be evil things,637and, on the contrary,
105 XXVI |              men and freed them from evil things. And they who say
106 XXVI |              that because pain is an evil thing sinners are committed
107 XXVI |              fire; and if pain is an evil thing, pleasure must be
108 XXVI |             good things and three of evil things. Moreover, not only
109 XXVI |              For if tribulations are evil, and the Apostle speaks
110 XXVI |            clear that he rejoiced in evil things; but this is foolish,
111 XXVI |             as he speaks of were not evil; being pressed on every
112 XXVI |              good and three kinds of evil, have to face another fact,
113 XXVI |             even the Devil is not an evil to the holy man. At all
114 XXVI |         events, the Devil was not an evil to Job, for all things work
115 XXVI |               on the other hand, the evil things which shall be awarded
116 XXVI |              that "good" things and "evil" things, partly depend on
117 XXVI |     consequently, also, what are the evil things, in order that through
118 XXVI |           good things, and repel the evil things from our souls. But
119 XXVI |       applying the terms "good" and "evil" to bodily things, and what
120 XXVI |             God, shall wo not endure evil? " 661And in Jeremiah, "
121 XXVI |                    And in Jeremiah, "Evil came down from the Lord
122 XXVI |             God, shall we not endure evil?" And instead of, "These
123 XXVI |              inhabitants," we have, "Evil came down from the Lord
124 XXVII|              the tree which bore the evil fruit less vigorous, perhaps
125 XXVII|            to have been the cause of evil to some people. "Woe unto
126 Index|            uncreated or the cause of evil, 197 f. ~Messiah, proved