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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...

John CassianNicene and Post-Nicene FathersVincent of Lerins

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That a good will should not always be attributed to grace, nor always to man himself. For we should not hold that God made man such that he can never will or be capable of what is good: or else He has not granted him a free will, if He has suffered him only to will or be capable of evil, but neither to will or be capable of what is good of himself. And, in this case how will that first statement of the Lord made about men after the fall stand: “Behold, Adam is become as one of us, knowing good…

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...

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