[272] For we read in the next verse, "And the nation to which they shall be slaves I will judge, and after that they shall go forth with great substance." [181] For it is inevitable that a mortal man must obey the nature of the passions, and that a man who has been born must endure the fate which is allotted to him as appropriate; but it is the will of God to lighten the evils which are planted contemporaneously with our birth.