"৳ Now by this way of reasoning, the necessity appears as it were to change sides: for it is not necessary, according to their opinion, that the things which are foreseen should happen; but it is necessary, however, that the things which are to befal should be foreseen; as if the question was, which was the cause of the other—prescience, of the necessity of future events; or the necessity, of the prescience of future events. But I shall now endeavour to demonstrate, that in whatever way the chain of causes is disposed, the event of things which are foreseen is necessary; although prescience may not appear to be the necessitating cause of their befalling."