The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus

St. Hippolytus of Rome · c. 200–235 AD

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Section 59

From the Discourse of St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, on the Divine Nature

God is capable of willing, but not of not willing for that pertains only to one that changes and makes choice; for things that are being made follow the eternal will of God, by which also things that are made abide sustained.