ABSTRACT
Regarding the fourtieth distinction we ask whether an elect can 1 be condemned.
It seems not to be the case: What has passed into the past, is necessary - as the Philosopher
holds in the sixth book of his Ethica, approving the statement of a certain person who said: "Only this God cannot do: make that the past is not the past."1 But this person's being elected already has passed on into the past. Therefore, he cannot not be elected, and consequently, he cannot be condemned.
