"৳ What then is the consequence..? How does God foreknow these uncertain contingencies? For if he thinks a thing will inevitably happen, which possibly may not, he is deceived; which one can neither believe, nor say of God, without blasphemy. But if he perceives that things will happen according to their casual circumstances; if he knows that they either may or may not take place; what sort of prescience is this, which comprehends nothing certain..? May it not be... compared with the ridiculous divination of ? Whatever I say, either shall or shall not be. In what... is the prescience of God superior to the opinion of men, if... he judges with uncertainty... the event... not fixed?"