Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.3.9

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[9] εἰ δὲ μήτε ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ ἐστι πρόδηλον μήτε ἐξ ἑτέρου ἀποδείκνυται, ἀκατάληπτον ἔσται εἰ ἔστι θεός.

Ἒτι καὶ τοῦτο λεκτέον. ὁ λέγων εἶναι θεὸν ἤτοι προνοεῖν
αὐτὸν τῶν ἐν κόσμω φησὶν ἤ οὐ προνοεῖν, καὶ εἰ μὲν προνοεῖν, ἤτοι πάντων ἤ τινων. (Epic. fr. 374 Us.) ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν πάντων προυνόει, οὐκ ἦν ἂν οὔτε κακόν τι οὔτε κακία ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ· κακίας δὲ πάντα μεστὰ εἶναι λέγουσιν· οὐκ ἄρα πάντων προνοεῖν λεχθήπροσέπιπτεν ¹ 121 σεται ὁ θεός.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (Greek) (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.)

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 3.3.9 focus

[9] But if God’s existence is neither automatically pre-evident nor proved from another fact, it will be inapprehensible.

There is this also to be said. He who affirms that God exists either declares that he has, or that he has not, forethought for the things in the universe, and in the former case that such forethought is for all things or for some things. But if he had forethought for all, there would have been nothing bad and no badness in the world; yet all things, they say, are full of badness; hence it shall not be said that God forethinks all things.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 19 Bekk. : προέπιπτεν G: incideret Τ 22 add. Τ (qui enim demonstrat) cf. v. 24 25 ἀποδεικνυόμενον ML: ἀποδεικνύμενον EAB 29 post πρόδηλον add. pappenheim τὸ εἷναι θεόν, quod fors. e p. 121,1 huc transponendum censet 1 del. Pappenheim 5 προεκκειμένου GT (preexistentis): προκειμένου edd. llsqq. Epicuri fragm. agnovit Pasquali 13 δὲ G: γὰρ Τ (enim)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.3.9

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