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From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature.¹⁸⁴³

God is capable of willing, but not of not willing¹⁸⁴⁴ for that pertains only to one that changes and makes choice;¹⁸⁴⁵ for things that are being made follow the eternal will of God, by which also things that are made abide sustained.

Notes

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From the Discourse on the Theology or the Doctrine of Christ's Divine Nature, extant in the Acts of the Lateran Council, under Martinus 1., ann. 649, secret. v. p. 287, vol. vii. edit. Veneto-Labb.
1843
peri theologias.
1844
ou to me thelein.
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treptou kai proairetou.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.