[77] [cap.17] On which account he says in another passage, "The cup is in the hand of the Lord; full of the mixture of unmixed wine;" [32] and yet that which is mixed is not unmixed; but these words are spoken in a sense in the strictest accordance with natural philosophy and in one perfectly consistent with what has been said before; for God exerts his power in an untempered degree towards himself, but in a mixed character towards his creatures; for it is impossible for a mortal nature to endure his power unmitigated.