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Hippolytus of Rome, Fragments of Discourses or Homilies §2: From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature

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God is capable of willing, but not of not willing for that pertains only to one that changes and makes choice; for things that are being made follow the eternal will of God, by which also things that are made abide sustained.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1886), public domain (Public domain).

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