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Evil, then, cannot be natural.Consequently, no creature is guilty by nature, nor is its author evil.For evil is found not to be a subsisting nature.Just as every creature is good insofar as it is created, so God, the author of good natures, is proved entirely good, stained by no crime in his work.Everything Mani brought forward is therefore overthrown by this single catholic argument (1 Timothy 4:4).
Malum igitur naturale esse non potest ac per hoc nec rea ulla naturaliter creatura nec malus auctor. Malum quippe non exstantis invenitur naturae, sed sicut omnis creatura, in quantum conditur, bona est, ita et Deus, naturarum auctor bonarum, nullo operis sui crimine maculatus per omnia bonus probatur. Totum igitur, quidquid Manichaeus attulerat, hac una catholicorum ratione subversum est.