Decree IV

We believe the tri-personal God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit to be the maker of all things visible and invisible; and the invisible are the angelic Powers, rational souls, and demons,—though God made not the demons what they afterwards became by their own choice,—but the visible are heaven and what is under heaven. And ος ος the). Maker ἶ good by) nature, He made all things very goodt whatsoever He hath made, nor can He ever be the maker of evilt But if there be aught evil, that is to say, sin, come about contrarily to the Divine Will, in man or in demon,—for that evil is simply in nature, we do not acknowledge,—it is either of man, or of the devil. For it is a true and infallible rule, that God is in no wise the author of evil, nor can it at all by just reasoning be attributed to God.