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They call the teaching of those who assert that a just God created humanity free to act well empty and heretical human talk: the teaching that each person has the power to turn away from evil and shine through the pursuit of virtue.For this would drive the sting of anxiety and fear into those who attribute their shameful acts to the necessities of the flesh.
Vanos vero hominum haereticosque sermones, qui asserant Deum iustum ad bonum opus liberum hominem condidisse, et esse in uniuscuiusque potestate recedere a malo, ac studiis splendere virtutis, ut his qui flagitia in necessitatem carnis refundunt, sollicitudinum et timorum aculeus infigatur.