All events are under God’s providential control, but the term predestination is reserved by Augustine for the destining of men and women to salvation. God foreknows what he himself does not (and cannot) do—that is, acts of evil. He does not predestine such acts, but they are part of his providence.12 One further point. In warmly embracing the Pauline ideas of Romans 9, Augustine faces head-on the question of divine equity in God’s choice of some and not of others. Not for him an arbitrary God, however.