So God’s knowledge is safeguarded in the case
of the good act. It is certain that, from all eternity, God sees himself
instigating in me this or that good action, making it come to fruition, and
that without violating my free will but, rather, creating it. God’s prescience
from all eternity—the prefix must be understood not as meaning “beforehand,”
but as signifying knowledge “of a higher mode”—and human freedom are thus reconciled.
We come, not to a contradiction, but to a great mystery. God is mystery; if you
stop thinking a mystery of him, if you imagine him and his knowledge of the world
after the fashion of man, everything falls to pieces. (Charles Journet, The
Meaning of Grace [trans. A. V. Littledale; Scepter Publishers, Inc., 1996],
36)
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