Significats de antecedent cause en anglès

Now things created by God are related to the divine will as to an antecedent cause, whereby they have necessity.

Either there is no original impulse, or every original impulse has no antecedent cause, and there is no will properly so-called without freedom.

For the one of these two consequences will follow from Fate's being an absolute, the other from its being only an antecedent cause.

And if this-asmatter of speculation merely-wasthe case, must there not exist some antecedent cause to which could be referred such persistent effect?

In any case, man has his antecedents ; life has its antecedents ; every beat of one's heart has its antecedent cause, which again has its antecedent.

3: Further, whatever is necessary by its antecedent cause is necessary absolutely; it is thus necessary that animals should die, being compounded of contrary elements.