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  • This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

    Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.23, Cambridge University Press