Letter 183: The temptation that has already passed quickly loses its edge and turns toward forgetting.
To Reteos.
On the divine working: let the question "How?" have no place.
When the divine power is at work, let the question "How?" have no place. For if many things have come about and still come about beyond nature and beyond [the sequence of] reasoning [...], yet nothing lies beyond God, who fashions with ease even the things that come about contrary to all expectation.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐπὶ τῆς θείας ἐνεργείας, τὸ Πῶς μὴ ἐχέτω χώραν.
(82) Ὅταν ἡ θεία δύναμις ἐνεργῇ, τὸ Πῶς μὴ ἐχέτω χώραν. Εἰ γὰρ πολλὰ ὑπὲρ φύσιν, καὶ λογισμοῦ.ογισμόν.
α σμῶν ἀκολουθίαν, καὶ γέγονε καὶ γίνεται, ἀλλ’ οὐδέν ἐστιν ὑπὲρ θεὸν, τὸν εὐμαρῶς καὶ τὰ παρ’ ἐλπίδα δημιουργοῦντα.
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