Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
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"<br />
"<br />
Good<br />
De Providentia<br />
I fall forthwith in so doiug."<br />
The sun&gt;god still tries<br />
to dissuade him from his rash purpose by exciting<br />
his fears:<br />
Hold straight thy course nor turn for aught aside,<br />
Through Taurus horns adverse thy coursers guide,<br />
And Haemon s bow nnd Leo s<br />
searching face.<br />
To this he replied, "Yoke the steeds to the chariot;<br />
by the very words which you seek to deter me, you in<br />
cite me. I long to st<strong>and</strong> where Sol himself quakes<br />
with fear; it is only ignoble <strong>and</strong> weak souls that jour<br />
ney on safe roads; courage ventures on giddy<br />
heights."<br />
VI.<br />
"But<br />
why does God suffer any<br />
evil to befall the<br />
good ? Verily, He does not suffer it. He wards <strong>of</strong>f<br />
from them all evils, crimes <strong>and</strong> misdeeds <strong>and</strong> impure<br />
thoughts <strong>and</strong> avaricious designs <strong>and</strong> unbridled<br />
passions <strong>and</strong> lust after other men s property; He<br />
watches over <strong>and</strong> protects them. Will any one in ad<br />
dition to this dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> God that He shall also bear<br />
the luggage <strong>of</strong> good men (as if He were a slave)!<br />
They themselves cast this burden upon God; mere<br />
externals they make light <strong>of</strong>. Democritus threw<br />
away his riches, thinking them a fardel upon<br />
ble soul. Why do you wonder that God sometimes<br />
suffers that to come upon a good man which he him<br />
his no<br />
self desires?<br />
2. men sometimes lose their children."<br />
Why not, when they sometimes even put them to<br />
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