{and} it is seid in grek. þat alle þinges he seeþ {and} alle þinges he hereþ. 4424 [Linenotes: 4405 _haþ_--MS. haþe 4411 _last[e]_--laste 4412 _fro_--from 4415 _cloude_--clowdes 4418 _whiche_--which 4423 _seid_--MS. seide, C. seyd] PURO CLARU{M} LUMINE. [Sidenote: [The .2^de. Met{ur}.]] [Sidenote: The sweet-tongued Homer sings of the sun’s pure light. Yet the sun’s beams cannot pierce into the inner bowels of the earth, nor into the depths of the sea.] ++HOmer wiþ þe hony mouþe. þat is to seyn. homer wiþ þe swete dites syngeþ þat þe sonne is cleer by pure lyȝt. naþeles ȝit ne may it nat by þe inferme lyȝt of hys bemes breke{n} or p{er}ce{n} þe inwarde entrailes of 4428 þe erþe. or ellys of þe see. [Sidenote: But God, the world’s maker, beholding from on high, has his vision impeded neither by earth nor cloud.] ¶ so ne seeþ nat god makere of þe grete worlde to hym þat lokeþ alle þinges from on heye ne wiþstandiþ nat no þinges by heuynesses of erþe. ne þe nyȝt ne wiþstondeþ nat to hy{m} by þe blake 4432 cloudes. [Sidenote: At a glance he sees all events, present, past, and future.] ¶ þilke god seeþ i{n} o strook of þouȝt alle þinges þat ben or weren or schullen come. [Sidenote: God, then, that alone sees all things, may indeed be called the true Sun.] ¶ and þilke god for he lokeþ {and} seeþ alle þinges al oon. þou maist [[pg 154]] seyn þat he is þe verray sonne. 4436 [Linenotes: 4425 _mouþe_--Mowth 4428 _percen_--MS. p{er}te{n}, C. p{er}cen _inwarde_--inward 4430 _worlde_--world _on heye_--an hegh 4431 _nat_--omitted 4434 _schullen come_--shollen comyn 4435 _al oon_--alone] [Headnote: GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE AND MAN’S FREE WILL.] TAMEN EGO EN INQ{UA}M. [Sidenote: [The .3^de. p{ro}se.]] [Sidenote: _B._ I am distracted by a more difficult doubt than ever.] ++ÞAn seide I now am I co{n}fou{n}ded by a more harde doute þan I was. what doute is þat q{uo}d she. ¶ For certys I coniecte now by whiche þinges þou art troubled. [Sidenote: God’s foreknowledge seems to me inconsistent with man’s free-will.] It semeþ q{uo}d I to repugnen {and} to contrarien 4440 gretly þat god knoweþ byforn alle þinges. {and} þat þer is any fredom of liberte. [Sidenote: For if God foresees all things, and cannot be deceived, then that which Providence hath foreseen must needs happen.] for yif so be þat god lokeþ alle þinges byforn. ne god ne may nat ben desseiuid in no manere. þan mot it nedes ben þat alle 4444 þinges bytyden þe whiche þat þe purueaunce of god haþ sein byforn to comen.