Note 393 — Lecture VIII. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. II. The Moral Governor.
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Epict. Diss. 1. 1. 10; cf. Seneca, de Provid. 5. 7, ‘non potest artifex mutare materiam.’ But Epictetus sometimes makes it a question, not of possibility, but of will, e.g. Diss. 4. 3. 10.