Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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This attribution [http://books.google.com/books?id=rs47AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA494 occurs in chapter 13 (Ioan. Graphei, 1532, p. 494)] of the Christian church father's Lactantius's De Ira Dei (c. 318):