| ### QUESTION 79 ### OF THE EXTERNAL CAUSES OF SIN ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the external causes of sin, and (1) on the part of God; (2) on the part of the devil; (3) on the part of man. #### Under the first head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether God is a cause of sin? #### (2) Whether the act of sin is from God? #### (3) Whether God is the cause of spiritual blindness and hardness of heart? #### (4) Whether these things are directed to the salvation of those who are blinded or hardened? ####  |