SECTION XXIX

But neither is it this which we affirm—the “privation fights against the Good by its own power”; for the complete privation is altogether powerless, and the partial has the power, not in respect of privation, but in so far as it is not a complete privation. For, whilst privation of good is partial, it is not, as yet, an evil, and when it has become an accomplished fact, the nature of the evil has departed also.