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This distinction has such force that, if through ignorance we conclude in necessity what begins from possibility, every crime returns to God.Mani saw this and invented darkness as sin’s author, since he could not distinguish possibility from necessity.Everything a human being possesses naturally, therefore, he has received on the side of necessity, because he could not be otherwise than he was made.
Tantum ergo valet ista distinctio, ut si nescientes, quod a possibili incipit, in necessarium concludamus, omnia crimina ad Deum recurrant. Quod Manichaeus videns, tenebras peccati excogitavit auctores; non enim valuit inter possibile necessariumque distinguere. Omne ergo quod naturaliter habet homo, a necessarii parte sortitus est; quia non potuit aliter esse quam factus est.