But are there not some creatures which are only harmful?
At present they may be, because it is a just punishment for our fallen nature. But we should discover how everything has its own good, if it is in right use. Even the small things show greatness of the wisdom of their creator.
There are some (Manichaeans) who do not want to admit this because they think there is a source of evil separate from God which produced this... But they would see they were mistaken if they saw that God is unchangeable and never harmed by evil, and that the human soul which can be deprived from the good by its own will and sin, is created by God and thus far different from its creator.
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