But then I would ask, “Who made me? Was it not my God, who is not merely a great good but the Good itself? How, then, does it come about that I will evil and will against good? Is it so that I can justly suffer punishments? Who placed this in me? Who planted in me this seed of bitterness, [Heb. 12:15] when all that I am was made by my God, who is of surpassing sweetness? Suppose the devil was responsible. Then where did the devil come from? If it was by the perversity of his will that a good angel became the devil, where did the evil will by which he became the devil come from, since the {102}
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