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Everything is from God, both good and sorrowful and unworthy; but one is by good will, the other by economy, the third by permission. And by good will - when we live virtuously, for it pleases God that we lead a sinless life, live virtuously and piously. According to the economy, when, falling into mistakes and sinning, we are admonished; by permission, when even those admonished we do not convert. God was pleased that man would be saved, just as the Angels cried out, saying: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (Luke 2:14). Again, economically, God admonishes us who sin, so that we would not be condemned with the world, as the apostle says: “We are judged by” God, “punished, lest we be condemned with the world” (1 Cor. 11:32). And there is “evil in the city, which the Lord will not do” (Am. 3:6), such as: famine, plagues, illnesses, defeats, battles; for all this serves to cleanse from sin those who either do not want to live without sin, or those who are admonished do not convert, but remain in sin, as it is written: “God has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts” (John 12:40); and: “betray them... in an unskilled mind,” that is, he allowed their freedom to “do inappropriate things” (Rom. 1:28); also: by hardening “I will harden Pharaoh’s heart” (Is. 4:21), that is, I will allow him to become hardened for his disobedience. You might be interested in: