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For men will listen to his [Satan's] sweet lies, To lift a finger to violate the only prohibition, He [man] submits to the only guarantee, therefore he and his The offspring of treachery will fall.whose fault? Who, but himself?heartless, he from me [God] I took everything; I made him upright, Mother can stand still, even if she wants to fall, she is also free. . . . they say with regard to their right, Completed at the time of creation, it cannot be plausible Against the Creator, or by creation, or by fate, This error was not foreseen but also proved to be inevitable So not moved or influenced by fate,

Nor by my uneasier foreknowledge, They did all their sins on their own account, Regardless of judgment, regardless of will; The first category [Treacherous God] is self-indulgent, sinking and depraved, self-seduction, self-destruction; man's fall first deceived by the other, for forgiveness; On the other hand, never.