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B. CROWE of the same ground a decade later. It is time, however, to return to Grotius's Etiamsi daremus and to look at the sources of it whom Grotius may well have discovered in Suarez. IV. GREGORY OF RIMINI AND GABRIEL BIEL. The fact that Suarez, in the event, rejected the hypothesis of God's non-existence, together with the extreme essentialism in morals of which it is the expression, is no bar to his having influenced Grotius in the matter. What does rema:in a puzzle is how Suarez's prime authorities, Gregory of Rimini and Gabriel Biel, should prove to be leading voluntarists.

St LEGER, The 'Etiamsi Darem11s' of Hugo Grotius, pp. 41-44, cf. H. WELZEL, Die Naturrechtslehre Samuel Pufendorfs, Berlin, 1958, pp. 9-10. 74. The remark is made about Suarez and theology by G. H. SABINE, History of Political Theory, London, 1937, p. 354. 31 Grotius, Pufendorf and Modem Natural Law 1HE ,,IMPIOUS HYPOTHESIS": A PARADOX IN HUGO GROTIUS? " and in a footnote to this passage he writes : ,,When as in Grothius ... and his precursors ... the assumption was made that there would be a Natural Law even if God did not exist, or of He were unjust, the logical consequence of that assumption was the abandoning of any idea that it was derived from the nature or will of God; and this is what we find in Thomasius ...

Cit. note 59, p. 138. , pp. 149-152. 61. ,,John of Mirecourt and Gregory of Rimini on Whether God can Undo the Past" in Recherches de theologie ancie1111e et medievale, 39 (1972), pp. 224-256; 40 (1973), pp. 147-174. Courtenar points out - and Trapp agrees - that the general picture of Ockham~m. built upon slender evidence, has persisted in text-books and elsewhere long after the evidence for it has been overturned. He is not convinced, however, that Gregory of Rimini can be placed among the major figures in the condemnation of John of Mirecourt - for Mirecourt was condemned, inter alia.

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