“"Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?" Namely from good results prosperity, from bad results adversity. For, in such an idea is excluded the error of those persons who claim everything happens from chance, like Cicero, the Roman philosopher. However, the apostle and evangelist John 1:3 as…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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36To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
— Lamentations 3:38 —
39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.