Deuteronomy 32:39 joined to Isaiah 45:7, and Neville uses the pair as the scriptural warrant for a God with no opposite. I kill, I make alive; I wound, I heal; I create the good, I create the evil. He will not let the second half be softened into permission or allowance: the same one does both, and there is no second power anywhere to take the blame. What follows it is always the same small correction - you are invited to choose the good, to choose the blessing, but we aren't compelled - so the freedom is real and the responsibility is the creature's, while the power behind both choices is one. It is the doctrinal form of the slave who obeys evil as swiftly as good, and he quotes it in about twelve lectures, usually where someone might otherwise assume the law is a moral instrument.