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    Supports→The delays of divine punishment do not speak against the existence of divine providence.

    God acts on reason rather than passionate anger or impulse, thereby avoiding errors.

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    In this work Plutarch examines an issue with which philosophers of his age are seriously concerned, namely that of theodicy. Even if God is not responsible for occurrences of evil (see above, sect. 4.2), there is a question of why these are not always punished promptly by God. In his treatise On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance Plutarch addresses the question of whether the delays of divine punishment speak against the existence of divine providence (550C) and he replies that this is not the c

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