I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je forme la lumière, et je crée les ténèbres, Je donne la prospérité, et je crée l'adversité; Moi, l'Eternel, je fais toutes ces choses.
KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
Florus of Lyon
Book against John Scotus
Lord Himself, through the prophet Isaiah, says, "I am the Lord, making peace and creating calamity" (Isaiah 45:7). Hence, He also threatens with certain evils, saying, "And I will bring calamity upon them, the year of their visitation" (Jeremiah 11:23). And again, "I will heap ca…
Florus of Lyon
Book against John Scotus
God Himself testifies through the prophet, saying: "I am the Lord, making peace and creating evil" (Isaiah 45:7). And elsewhere it is written: "If there is evil in the city, has not the Lord done it?" (Amos 3:6). And again: "Good and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are…
Gottschalk of Orbais
Confession and Extended Confession
hose things which He Himself was going to do.' Hence it is said: 'Creating things that are to come' (Isaiah 45:7, according to the Septuagint). Similarly, connecting predestination more plainly and fully with foreknowledge, he says about the Trinity: In His foreknowledge, which c…
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