And in thus much is bounded, that the evil hath He left unto another,
And that dark other hath usurped the evil which Omnipotence laid down.
Unto God there exist impossibilities; for the True One cannot lie,
Nor the Wise One wander from the track which He hath determined for Himself:
For His will was purposed from eternity, strong in the love of order;
And that will altereth not, as the law of the Medes and Persians.
God is the origin of order, and the first exemplar of His precept;
For there is subordination of His Essence, self-guided unto holiness;
And there is subordination of His Persons, in due procession of dignity;
For the Son, as a son, is subject; and to Him doth the Spirit minister: