{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg025.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg025.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg025.local001","title":"Quod deus non est auctor malorum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"BASILIUS Caesariensis Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Quod deus non est auctor malorum, MPG 31: 329–353. Cod: 4,474: Homilet.","citationShort":"Quod deus non est auctor malorum, MPG 31: 329–353."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrologia_Graeca_Vol._031.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"Quod deus non est auctor malorum. Quod deus non est auctor malorum, MPG 31: 329–353.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg025.local001","excerpt":"ἡμᾶς αὐτούς. Ἀρχὴ γὰρ καὶ ῥίζα τῆς ἁμαρτίας τὸ ἐφ' ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον. Οἷς γὰρ ἐξῆν ἀπεχομέ- νοις τοῦ κακοῦ μηδὲν δεινὸν ἔχειν, οὗτοι δι' ἡδονῆς εἰς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν δελεασθέντες, τίνα ἂν εἴποιμεν εὐπρεπῆ λόγον, τὸ μὴ οὐχὶ αὐτοὶ ἑαυτοῖς αἴτιοι τῶν ἀλγεινῶν γεγενῆσθαι; Κακὸν τοίνυν τὸ μὲν ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἡμετέραν αἴσθησιν, τὸ δὲ ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ φύσιν. Τὸ μὲν οὖν φύσει κακὸν ἐξ ἡμῶν ἤρτηται, ἀδικία, ἀσέλγεια, ἀφροσύνη, δειλία, φθόνοι, φόνοι, φαρμακεῖαι, ῥᾳδιουργίαι, καὶ ὅσα τούτοις συγγενῆ παθήματα, τὴν κατ' εἰκόνα τοῦ κτίσαντος γεγενημένην ψυχὴν καταῤῥυπαίνοντα, ἐπισκοτεῖν αὐτῆς τῷ κάλλει πέφυκε. Πάλιν κακὸν λέγομεν τὸ ἡμῖν ἐπίπονον καὶ ὀδυνηρὸν πρὸς τὴν αἴσθησιν, νό- σον σώματος, καὶ πληγὰς σώματος, καὶ τῶν ἀναγ- καίων τὴν ἔνδειαν, καὶ ἀδοξίας, καὶ χρημάτων ζη- μίας, καὶ οἰκείων ἀποβολάς· ὧν ἕκαστον ἡμῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ φρονίμου καὶ ἀγαθοῦ Δεσπότου πρὸς τὸ συμφέ- ρον ἐπάγεται. Πλοῦτον μὲν γὰρ…","divisions":[{"label":"31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg025.local001/#tlg2040-tlg025-local001-31"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg025.local001/#tlg2040-tlg025-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg025.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg025.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg025/local001.json.gz"}}