Scholastic thinking, for all its effort to Christianize Greek thought, retains this notion of the identity of finitude with evil. Even as finite, apart from the fall, man was, according to this view, in need of grace. Accordingly grace fills a primarily metaphysical rather than an ethical need. On this view, however, evil is never worthy of God’s wrath and condemnation. Evil is something for which man is not fully responsible. He cannot help being finite and therefore cannot help being sinful. On