To Florus · §5.46 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 5.46

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What came from the creator’s possibility therefore passed into the creature’s necessity. He also made different natures and different species within natures, preserving the order flowing from things’ beginnings: some things were necessary, others possible. Whatever creatures possess naturally, then, they received on the side of necessity.

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Transiit ergo in necessitatem conditi, quod venerat de possibilitate condentis. Fecit etiam diversas naturas diversasque species in naturis, custodito eo ordine qui a rerum fluebat exordio, ut alia essent necessaria, alia possibilia. Quidquid ergo habent creaturae naturaliter, a necessarii parte sortitae sunt.