are chosen that they might believe. In like manner, when writing to Sextus, he says, “As to the great deep,—why one man believes, and another does not,—why God delivers one man and not another,—let him who can, search into that profound abyss. But let him beware of the awful precipice.” Again, in another place, he says, “Who created the reprobate, but God? And why? because He willed it. Why did He will it?—‘Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God?’ ” And again, elsewhere, after he had proved