Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 09 — Section 1159
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 9
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While, however, we assert that will is natural, we hold not that it is dominated by necessity, but that it is free. For if it is rational, it must be absolutely free. For it is not only the divine and uncreated nature that is free from the bonds of necessity, but also the intellectual and created nature. And this is manifest: for God, being by nature good and being by nature the Creator and by nature God, is not all this of necessity. For who is there to introduce this necessity? It is to be observed further [2112] , that freedom of will is used in several senses, one in connection wi…
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