Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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