FREE WILL MUST BE FOR MEN, IF IT IS TO BE FOR THE DIVINITIES.
Before attacking these questions, we must, as is usual, begin by examining whether we ourselves possess freedom of will.[166] First then, in what sense do we possess free will (or, responsibility, "that something depends on us"); or rather, what conception we should form of it? To answer this question will be the only means of arriving at a conclusion about whether or not freedom of will should be ascribed to the divinities, let alone (the supreme) Divinity. Besides, while attributing to them freedom of will, we shall have to inquire to what it applies, either in the other beings, or in the Beings of the first rank.