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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 9
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Diejenigen philosophi, so Gott
die materi zur seiten gesezet,
c
a
hielten dafür, das böse rühre.
eintzig und allein her ex necess
sitate materiae, und hätte also
Gott kein ding beßer machen
können, alß pro subjecta ma¬
teria, neque enim ex quovis ligno fit,
Mercurius. Weilen aber die¬
se beede meinungen gantz
irrig, so haben andere Causam
mati in nihilo vel privatione
das ist in der Creaturen un¬
vermeidlichen beschrenckung
und daher rührenden imper-
fection gesuchet. Diese mei¬
nung quod malum sit ex nitulo
wird sonderlich Augustino zu
geschrieben, welcher lib. 2. de
rib. arbit. c. 20. gesagt, omne
bonum ex Deo, nulla ergo na¬
tura est, quae non sit ex Deo. Mo
tus ergo ille aversionis, quem fate-
mur esse peccatum, quia defectibus