600Punishment is Constituted for the Sinning Nature that It May Be Rightly
Ordered.
601Natures Corruptible, Because Made of Nothing.
602God Cannot Suffer Harm, Nor Can Any Other Nature Except by His Permission.
603All Good Things are from God Alone.
604Individual Good Things, Whether Small or Great, are from God.
605Small Good Things in Comparison with Greater are Called by Contrary Names.
606In the Body of the Ape the Good of Beauty is Present, Though in a Less Degree.
607Privations in Things are Fittingly Ordered by God.
608Nature, in as Far as It is Nature, No Evil.
609Hyle, Which Was Called by the Ancients the Formless Material of Things, is
Not an Evil.
610To Have True Existence is an Exclusive Prerogative of God.
611Pain Only in Good Natures.
612From Measure Things are Said to Be Moderate-Sized.
613Measure in Some Sense is Suitable to God Himself.
614Whence a Bad Measure, a Bad Form, a Bad Order May Sometimes Be Spoken
of.
615It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The
Son of God Begotten, Not Made.
616This Last Expression Misunderstood by Some.
617That Creatures are Made of Nothing.
618’From Him’ And ‘Of Him’ Do Not Mean The Same Thing.
619Sin Not From God, But From The Will of Those Sinning.
620That God is Not Defiled by Our Sins.
621That Good Things, Even the Least, and Those that are Earthly, are by God.
622To Punish and to Forgive Sins Belong Equally to God.
623From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful.
624That Evil Angels Have Been Made Evil, Not by God, But by Sinning.
625That Sin is Not the Striving for an Evil Nature, But the Desertion of a Better.
626The Tree Was Forbidden to Adam Not Because It Was Evil, But Because It Was
Good for Man to Be Subject to God.
627No Creature of God is Evil, But to Abuse a Creature of God is Evil.
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