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Often appears with: unchangeable god · sin, guilt, and repentance · justice as good · justice as a virtue · free will
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“In Scripture they are called God's enemies who oppose His rule, not by nature, but by vice; having no power to hurt Him, but only themselves.” Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo, The City of God, Volume I · insight
Augustine argues that God’s enemies are enemies by free will and vice, not by nature, and that vice harms only the mutable good it corrupts, never unchangeable God.
enemies of God are so, not by nature but by will, which, as it injures them, injures a good nature; for if vice does not injure, it is not vice._ In Scripture they are called God's enemies who oppose His rule, not by nature, but by vice; having no power to hurt Him, but only themselves. For they are His enemies, not through their power to hurt, but by their will to oppose Him. For God is unchangeable, and wholly pro…