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1Epictetus in his Enchiridion makes short work of the question of evil.
2For evil is the privation of good, according to Augustine (Enchiridion xi).
3For "the works of the Trinity are inseparable," as Augustine says (Enchiridion xxxviii).
4Now a thing is called evil "because it harms," as Augustine says (Enchiridion xii).
5For, according to Augustine (Enchiridion xii), "a thing is evil because it is harmful."
6We have also from Arrian's hand the small Enchiridion or Manual of the chief precepts of Epictetus.
7Hence, as Augustine says (Enchiridion xl): "Grace is in a manner natural to the Man Christ."
8Wherefore Augustine says (Enchiridion xl): The manner in which Christ was born of the Holy Ghost .
9Hence Augustine says in the Enchiridion (Serm.
10There is a valuable commentary on the Enchiridion by Simplicius, who lived in the time of the emperor Justinian.
11Poliziano's version was printed in the first Bâle edition of the Enchiridion, A. D. 1531 (apud And.
12For Augustine says (Enchiridion 103): No one is saved, except whom God has willed to be saved.
13For, according to Augustine (Enchiridion xii), a thing is said to be evil because it does harm.
14The Enchiridion, on the other hand, is a purely devotional book, though written for a man of the world.
15Augustine says (Enchiridion iii) that "God is worshiped by faith, hope and charity," which are theological virtues.
16The last reflection of the Stoic philosophy that I have observed is in Simplicius' Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus.
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