There would be no efficacy in skill if all motions took place perforce.' 'Then, things which in taking place are free from any necessity as to their being in the present must also, before they take place, be about to happen without necessity.

Wherefore there are things which will come to pass, the occurrence of which is perfectly free from necessity.

At all events, I imagine that no one will deny that things now taking place were about to come to pass before they were actually happening.

Such things, however much foreknown, are in their occurrence _free_.

For even as knowledge of things present imports no necessity into things that are taking place, so foreknowledge of the future imports none into things that are about to come.