Miscellanies 7.2.6

the believer by good hopes, and the hard-hearted by corrective discipline through action they can perceive. Hence providence works in private, in public, and everywhere. That there is a Son of God, and that he is the one we call Savior and Lord, the divine prophecies show directly. So the Lord of all, Greeks and barbarians, persuades those who are willing; for he does not compel the one who is able to receive salvation from him by choosing and by fulfilling all that is required of him to lay hold of the hope. He it is who gave philosophy to the Greeks too, through the lower angels; for by an ancient divine ordinance angels have been distributed among the nations. But “the Lord's portion” is the glory of those who believe. For either the Lord does not care for all human beings (and this would happen to him either through being unable, which it is not lawful to say, for that is a sign of weakness, or through being unwilling though able, but such a feeling does not belong to one who is good; and surely he who for our sake took on flesh capable of suffering is not lazy through luxury), or he cares for all together, which is fitting for him who has become Lord of all. For he is not Savior of some and not of others; but according to each one's fitness he distributed his benefaction, to Greeks and barbarians, and to those among them who were predestined and in their proper time called, the faithful and elect.