3. Scotus’ own Response

17. Thus therefore can it be said as concerns this article that, whether in a recidivist or someone who is not a recidivist (because the divine act does not depend on an extrinsic sin of the recidivist), God can of his absolute power bring back an obligation of him to the same penalty as before, and even to the same obligation. And so in the same way in which a sin remains after the act (because only the obligation to a penalty remains) can the same sin in number return, by the absolute power of God, not only in the recidivist but in the non-recidivist.