There seems to me ... to be such incompatibility between the existence of God’s universal foreknowledge and that of any [man’s] freedom of judgment. ... God ... views ... everything as though it were taking place in the present. If you would weigh the foreknowledge by which God distinguishes all things, you will more rightly hold it to be a knowledge of a never-failing constancy in the present, than a foreknowledge of the future. ... God sees all things in His eternal present.
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy V, in Colman Barry, ed. Readings in Church History, vol. 1 (Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1960), 199 and 203.
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