Scripture attributes to God what some call fate; atheist and Machiavellian abuse of fate
For what some theologians and philosophers attribute to fate, Moses attributes to God when he says (Exodus 21:12–13): If anyone kills a man not willing it of his own accord, but because the axe slipped, he killed him because the Lord delivered him into his hand. Yet Alexander says that whoever denies the name of Fate cries out against common credulity and usage of speech, and therefore is not worthy of faith. But the fathers cry out not against true but against false credulity, and they do not take away the name of Fate except where there is danger of fallacy in the intellect.
And philosophers anxiously inquire what fate is, and the common opinion is that it is an order of causes. Homer and Ovid indeed introduce Jupiter weighing the fates and unable to do anything beside fate. These same things today's Machiavellists and atheists of our time often press — that if God truly gives laws, yet we do not keep them, acting otherwise by a certain fate; and when He wills to punish us He cannot. So atheists under the pretext of Fate corrupt the secrets of the Christian religion.
Latin
Quae enim a Theologis et Philosophis quibusdam fato tribuuntur, Moses tribuit Deo, cum dicit Exodus 21:12–13: Si quis occiderit hominem nolens sponte sua, sed quia delapsa est securis, occidit eum, quia Dominus tradidit illum in manum eius. Verum enimvero Alexander ait, qui negat nomen Fati, reclamat communi credulitati et usui loquendi. Idcirco non est fide dignus. Sed patres non credulitati verae sed falsae reclamant, et non tollunt nomen Fati nisi ubi fallaciae periculum in intellectu sit. Anxie autem disquirunt quid sit fatum et philosophi, et communis opinio est quod sit ordo causarum. Homerus quidem et Ovidius introducunt Jovem librantem fata et non potentem praeter fatum quid facere. Haec eadem saepe inculcant hodie Machiavellistae et Athei nostri temporis, quod si vere, inquiunt, Deus dat leges, tamen eas non observamus quodam fato aliud agentes; et cum nos punire vult non potest. Sic athei praetextu Fati arcana religionis Christianae corrumpunt.